The Use Of Geographic Names Information System Among Government Officers; A Case Study In Tripoli, Libya
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2015-07
Authors
Berrim, Abouzed Salah
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Technology has been regarded as a main key of countries developing in economic
growth, wealth, prestige and competitiveness. Technology has also recognized to be
a decisive tool for advancing the effectiveness and efficiency of government
performance. The Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and Geographic Name
Information System (GNIS) have been recognized as effective tools to solve the
challenges that faced by the government. The main challenges are; to cope with new
technology and the lack of technical human resources who can easily cope and adopt
with the GNIS technology. This thesis designed to investigate the intention towards
the use of the GNIS among government officers in Libya. The main objective of this
thesis is to investigate the level of intention to use (GNIS) among government
employees of the survey department at Tripoli city Libya, To analyze the relationship
between the organizational factors and intention to use GNIS among government
officers in Libya, To analyze the relationship between technological factors and
intention to use GNIS among government officers in Libya, To analyze the
relationship between the individual factors and intention to use GNIS among
government officers in Libya and To determine the significant factors that affects the
use of (GNIS) in Libya. This quantitative method research uses survey questionnaire
that was distributed among the Libya government officers. The statistic descriptive
analysis and the regression analysis have been used in this research. The ANOVA
has been used to ensure the validity and reliability of the research questionnaire and its items. The correlation analysis measures the relationship between the independent
variables and the dependent variables. The correlation analysis measures the
relationship between the independent variables and the dependent variables. The
result shows, three variables; Training, Perceived ease of use and Awareness are
negatively correlated with the intention to use GNIS among the government officers
in Libya. Trust (t= 6.348, correlation R= 0.448) is identified as the most correlating
factor, followed by attitude towards GNIS (t=4.162, correlation R= 0.236).The
findings confirmed that geographic names information system as important in
upgrading the workers in Libyan Survey Department. Thus, Government employees
in the Survey Department believe that the use of GNIS technologies can provide a
sufficient improvement in performance in their work environment. Therefore,
organizations should be aware of the importance of these factors. Policy makers
should assess the usefulness of the system before implementing it fully, and should
pay attention to the users' opinions and demands to prevent any resistance to the
GNIS technologies.
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Geographic information systems