CLOUD COMPUTING AND COMMUNICATION SUCCESS OF RIVERS STATE GOVERNMENT PARASTATALS

Abstract

The study examined the relationship between cloud computing and communication success of Rivers State Government Parastatals. The objective of the study was to examine how cloud computing relate with measures of communication success of Rivers State Government Parastatals. The cross-sectional explanatory survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of this study consisted of fifteen (15) functional and accessible Rivers State Government Parastatals. By the adoption of census sampling technique, the entire population of fifteen (15) Rivers State Government Parastatals was used as the sample. Structured questionnaire was used as instrument for data collection after face-validation. Cronbach alpha was used to test the internal consistency of the instrument. Out of 244 copies of the questionnaire administered, a total of 221 copies (91%) were retrieved. Arithmetic mean was used for the univariate analysis while the test of hypotheses was done using Correlational Statistical tool such as Spearman Rank Order Correlation and Partial Correlation. The findings revealed that cloud computing has significant positive relationship with communication success of Rivers State Government Parastatals. The study concluded that cloud computing bring about improvement in communication success in Government Parastatals. Among other things, the study recommended that Rivers State government parastatals should set up technological systems that will support the adoption of cloud computing in order to enhance their notification, feedback, and information access processes.