Building Information Technology (IT) Knowledge Centres as Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) for Nigerian Communities’ Sustainable Economic Development

Abstract

This paper calls for corporations to establish Information Technology (IT) Knowledge Centres for
communities as corporate social responsibility for sustainable economic development. Several authors
(Colle, 2005; Colle and Roman, 2001; Kanungo, 2003, 2004) call for corporate participation in creating
community based IT knowledge centre projects to make knowledge centres as a mechanism for economic
sustainable development. The emphasis on corporate and community participation is traced back to
stakeholder involvement (Whyte, 1999, 2000) as a measure for successful project in information systems
and international development fields. This paper finds that the concept of participation in IT knowledge
centres literature can be useful for communities’ economic sustainability and calls for more research.