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The Hidden Cost of Nigeria’s Paperwork Culture

The Hidden Cost of Nigeria’s Paperwork Culture
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The challenge is changing longstanding administrative practices, building public trust, and creating systems that work for ordinary Nigerians. The bigger challenge is changing the processes, behaviours and institutional practices that made the old systems inefficient in the first place.
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  • ✦Having helped develop and implement some of these systems, I have seen how technology can improve longstanding administrative processes, and why lasting change requires more than software alone.
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  • ✦The challenge is changing longstanding administrative practices, building public trust, and creating systems that work for ordinary Nigerians.
  • ✦The bigger challenge is changing the processes, behaviours and institutional practices that made the old systems inefficient in the first place.
  • ✦Having helped develop and implement some of these systems, I have seen how technology can improve longstanding administrative processes, and why lasting change requires more than software alone.
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The changes have also helped shorten processing timelines. In some cases, processes that previously took months or years can now be completed in a few weeks. The post The Hidden Cost of Nigeria’s Paperwork Culture appeared first on Vanguard News.

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What is the latest development regarding Cross River State?

The challenge is changing longstanding administrative practices, building public trust, and creating systems that work for ordinary Nigerians.

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The primary parties identified in this coverage include Cross River State, Lagos State, Calabar.

What are the broader implications of this development?

Having helped develop and implement some of these systems, I have seen how technology can improve longstanding administrative processes, and why lasting change requires more than software alone.

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