1.1 Introduction
The nascent nature of web applications market provides ample opportunities for entrepreneurial activity. To exploit these opportunities web application developers must generate successful market entry strategies, and among them a niche market strategy is considered the first step towards financial gain. Almost all the entrants pointed to the unique space, market position, and requirement they had carved out for engaging in business. In addition to delineating the market niche in general, entrepreneurial strategies must also address niche-specific issues of production and distribution. For web applications our interviews suggest that niche-specific production and distribution are shaped by development dependencies. Development dependencies are technological in nature and depend on the choice of technologies at multiple levels. First, the development language and platform chosen was driven by the developer’s background and experience in similar technologies.
As a prelude to other parts of this study, this chapter will discuss the background upon which this study was initiated, the statement of problems that led to this study, the Aim and Objectives of the study. Others are Significance of the study, Scope of work, Limitations of the Study and Definition of technical terms.
1.2 Background of Study
According to (NBS, 2004 and Ojo) about 80% of graduates in Nigeria find it difficult to get employment every year consistently. This is mainly due to the curricula of our tertiary institutions and other schools with emphasis on trainings for white collar jobs. In Nigeria, it is estimated to have about 170 million people (NBS, 2004 and Ojo, Abayomi&Odozi, 2014). This large population is blessed with abundant natural and human resources plus a favorable topographical area in the world. The current financial worldwide crisis has affected negatively on businesses globally and the Nigerian economy. This challenges has posed serious challenges and dangers to government and extraordinary number of citizens. Nigeria like other developing countries is confronted with various issues with regards to youth and graduate unemployment, significant level of poverty, insurgency, diseases, conflict, over reliance on imported products, slow economic development and growth, lack of human capacity and required skills to move the economy forward. Joblessness has become a significant issue to the lives of younger generations and fresh school graduates causing disappointment, discouragement, frustration and dependency on imported products to survive. The level of unemployment among this young population in Nigeria has contributed to the high rate of internet fraud, crime, insecurity and violence in the society during elections (Ajufo, 2003 &Simkovic 2012). The National Population Commission (2013), estimates that about sixty four (64) million of the Nigeria youths are unemployed or jobless while one million six hundred thousand (1.6million) are underemployed bringing the significant number of youths population without jobs to eighty (80) million.
When the high unemployment figures, when deducted from the total number of Nigeria’s population then you would concur that repositioning our entrepreneurship studies with a system to enlighten users on how to gain basic skills is required in our schools, this would help bridge the gap and give our growing unemployed youth job ambitions.
Another cause of unemployment in Nigeria is the lack of our educational system in Nigeria to address capacity development and teach our youth how to be solving problem. In developed countries, for instance, their educational technique introduces the youth to the trail of inquiry-discovery application to perceive problems (including societal problems) as challenges and opportunities that can be turned into goods and services to be rendered for money or commercial value (Adejimola&Olufumilayo, 2009). One of the ways to deal with unemployment in Nigeria is educating and using the advancement in technology for entrepreneurship and innovation. This should help in developing the capacity of students in entrepreneurship and innovation, engaging them in activities with small and large enterprises through such interventions as business incubators. Training our young generation into entrepreneurs is key to help fight unemployment, stop our reliance on imported goods, and grow our industrial and economic development in Nigeria.
1.3 Statement of Problem
Investigation revealed that for the government to re-positioning the economic, there is a need to build and drive entrepreneurial studies for job creation, wealth creation and global competitiveness of Nigeria youths and graduates. The purpose of the research is to equip Nigerian graduates and create a channel to enable easy venturing into skill acquisition and add to their knowledge and skills gotten from school. They are a lot of Challenges like inadequate funding, lack of training personnel and availability of equipment for training, but with the web system, all the listed challenges has been fixed.
1.4 Aim and Objectives of the Study
The aim of the study is to design and implement an Online Presentation System that would enlighten users on how to make cream, soap, perfume, bake and chemicals (insecticide). In achieving this aim, the following specific objectives were laid out as follows to develop an application software that will:
- Provide a web based system for entrepreneurship and innovation to fight against unemployment.
- Create a channel to enable easy venturing into skill acquisition and add to their knowledge and skills gotten from school.
- Create jobs for the growing unemployed youths.
- Help in the fight against students’ poor academic performance.
- Ease the accessibility of entrepreneurial enlightenment, solving the challenges of inadequate funding, lack of training personnel and availability of equipment for training.
1.5 Significance of Study
This study will be of immense benefit to skill aspirants and other researchers who intend to know more on this study and can also be used by non-researchers to build more on their research work. This study contributes to knowledge and could serve as a guide for other study.
1.6 Scope of Study
The scope of the research is focused on the design and implementation of an Online Presentation System that would enlighten users on how to make cream, soap, perfume, bake and chemicals (insecticide).
1.7 Limitations of the Study
During the course of this study, many things militated against its completion, some of which are:
- Time Constraint: The time frame given to accomplish this project was very short due to school academic calendar and it was carried out under pressure which made the researcher not to implement some necessary features.
- Establishment Policies: Establishment policies posed a serious limitation as most staffs are not ready to release information needed for this project work. There were lots of information needed from the staffs of this institution to enhance the study which took them time to release or they did not release at all for security purposes, hence the scope was reduced.
- Research material: availability of research material is a major setback to the scope of the study.
- Frequent power failure: This made the researcher append more money on fuel to ensure sustainable power.
- Financial Constraint: Insufficient fund tends to impede the efficiency of the researcher in sourcing for the relevant materials, literature or information and in the process of data collection (internet).
1.8 Definition of Terms
Skill Acquisition: is a type of learning in which repetition results in enduring changes in an individual's capability to perform a specific task.
Unemployment: when persons above a specified age are not in paid employment or self-employment and are currently available for work during the reference period.
Entrepreneurship: Entrepreneurship is the process of designing, launching and running a new business, which is often initially a small business.
Population: is the number of people in a city or town, region, country or world.
Skills: A skill is the ability to carry out a task with determined results often within a given amount of time, energy, or both.
Internet: is the global system of interconnected computer networks that uses the Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to link devices worldwide.
