INFORMATION DISSEMINATION STRATEGIES FOR RURAL COMMUNITIES IN BAYELSA STATE, NIGERIA

📄 Project Abstract

The concept of information has been generally or universally viewed as a basic resource which all people use to improve their condition of living and is essentially to development process. Aguolu (1989) consider information as embodying interrelated or structured data which are required to enable one to react knowledgeably as well as to take appropriate decisions. It constitutes message of human experience that is, what is transmitted, a signal or stimulus. It assumes a response potential transferred physically or electronically, evaluated or raw, accurate or inaccurate but always sought in an evaluated accurate sense. One of the most common ways to define information is to describe it as one or more statements or facts that are received by a human and that have some form of worth to the recipient or as knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance. This is indeed, a sense in which one could argue that information has come to represent the prime commod...