It is quite obvious
that computer technology has always fascinated man, thereby being marveled at
the complicated part of its design and cleverness to function, it is designed
to modify its function to changing circumstances. Its ability to process,
retrieve, store and transmit information which is required as a .prior
condition for such adaptive behavior.
However, the computer system can only work with
program installed in it i.e every task to be performed in the computer must
have a corresponding program/software environment for such task inside the
system. Health department uses the system to help ensure immunization of all
children (i.e. having to keep trace of children that have been immunized) with
vaccination list provided for health workers and immunization schedules
provided for parents on the bases of school enrollment.
Birth registration is of much important to the nation,
since it is the official recording of a child by the government, establishing
the existence of the child under law and provides the foundation for
safeguarding many of the child’s civil, political, economical, social and
cultural right. Article 7 of the convention of the right of the child stated by
the United States specified that every child has the right to be registered at
birth without any discrimination. Birth registration assists the national
population commission in the provision of numbers of new born babies that are
born in the country' and equally assist accuracy during census. Since birth
registration provides protective environment for defending the children's
right, therefore, not being registered may limit access to services and hampers
the successful enforcement of age specified legal frameworks and it means that
one is not counted.
This study will be of great help to the health
sector and to the national population commission, the objectives are stated
below:
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To keep records of the newly born babies.
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To ascertain the weights of the babies and keep
record.
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To help determine the increase in birth rate of
the country,
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To assist in accuracy during census.
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To safeguard a child’s civil, political, economical,
social and cultural right.
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To make birth registration system easy and beneficiary
as regards its manual method.
Actually, this topic was supposed to be for both birth
and death registration system, but due to some reason it was limited to only
birth registration.
I got the interest in
carrying out these project because of certain problems encountered in our
society where by different people not having birth record, i.e. they don't know
where they where they- born and their exact age. So due to this problem there
is an urgent need to introduce this program to enable principle record and
making work satisfactory to those involved and enable excellent, accurate
result and labour.
Due to the use of old system of registration
i.e. the normal method which sometime give imperfect report of their records,
the national population commission till now can not process registration
accurately fast and in large quantity due to lack of sophisticated machine for
the purpose.
Since the
running of this project, we have been facing some interruption and certain
things that some how jeopardize the progress of the research. Some of them
include:
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Lack of access to the school internet.
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Distance of travelling for gathering information or data,
* Gathering of some relevant information
were difficult.
* Lack of finance.
BIRTH: The emergence of a
baby or other young front the body of its mother.
DATA: It’s a raw facts and statistics used for reference or
analysis FILE: A group of related record.
F1ARDCOPY: A printed
version in paper of data help in a computer.
HARDWARE: The machine, wiring
and other physical component of a computer.
INFORMATION: a processed or organized fact that are use
in decision making.
INPUT: What is put in, take in, or operated on by a
process or system.
RECORD: a collection of
related fields.
OUTPUT: the amount of
something produced by a person, machine or industry.
REGISTRAR: A person whose job is to keep record of an event
REGISTRATION: The action or process of registering or of being registered.
SOFTCOPY:
Document/information on the computer system or on any storage device.
SYSTEM: The collection of interacting, inter-related
and inter-dependent unit that are working together to achieve a desire goal.
Kirsh (2003) stated that
ICT proficiency is the ability to use digital technology. Communication tools
and network appropriately to solve information problem in order to function in
an information societyThis includes the ability to use technology as a tool to
research, organize, evaluate and communicate information and the possession of
a fundamental understanding of the ethical/legal issues surrounding the access
and use of information.
This project will assist
in promoting ICT literacy in individuals to a great extent, because
computerizing the birth registration system conducted by the national
population commission and training the concerned staff will not only grant them
access to the computer system but also give them proper understanding of it.
This will help staff develop:
* Skills of analysis and problem
solving
• Skills of information processing and computing
» An understanding of the role of science and technology in the
society with scientific and technology skills.
« An appreciation and understanding
of concern for balanced development and growth of global environment.
T his will enable them
carry their knowledge of technology beyond their work place and applying it
both in their personal and social life thereby closing the gap between those
who posses essential ICT skills and those who do not. Virtually by this all
individual will be fully involved and productive members of a world that has
been and will continue to be transfonned by technology.