ASSESSMENT OF INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY TOOLS REQUIRED IN ENTREPRENEURSHIP EDUCATION TOWARDS POVERTY ALLEVIATION AMONG GRADUATES IN ONDO STATE, NIGERIA

Abstract

The focus of this study is to carry out an assessment of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools required in entrepreneurship education among graduates in Ondo State, Nigeria. The study adopted a descriptive research design of survey type with a population of three hundred and forty-six (346) graduates registered with the Ondo State Ministry of Commerce and Industry out of which one hundred (100) was purposely selected because they reside in the urban centres of Akure and Ondo which are the two metropolitan towns in the State. The only instrument was a structured questionnaire constructed by the researchers titled: Assessment of ICT Required in Entrepreneurship Education among  Graduates (AICTREDQ)  questionnaire on a four (4) likert scale responses of Highly Required (HR), Moderately Required (MR), Required (R) and Not Required (NR). The questionnaire was validated by experts in ICT and Entrepreneurship Education and reliability was established with 20 entrepreneurs trial tested using a split-half reliability technique. A reliability co-efficient of 0.72 was returned and the instrument was considered reliable.  The study reveals that graduates should be equipped with the nitty-gritty of modern technology so as to be job creators. The paper therefore recommends that graduates need constant training and retraining in the use of modern technologies in business operation to ease the way of cloud business with the end result of poverty alleviation in our society.