Cybernetic Communication Roles In Managing Corona Virus Pandemic Risk: Nigeria Case

Computer and Internet-Based Communication Technologies aka Cybernetic Communication play important role in communication over a distance. This work gauged uses of cybernetic communication as major means of communication during COVID-19 outbreak based on measured (Social Distance, Self-Quarantine, Isolation, Lockdown) put in place by the government to curtail spreading of the disease in Nigeria. Data were randomly collected through online publication, newsprints, and telephone calls from 290 sampled population. Data Collected were discussed and analyses using Pie chart, Percentile, and Histogram as statistical tools. Findings shows that Cybernetic communication play major role to bridge the communication gaps between the Nigerian people during the outbreak of the Covid-19 outbreak as majority of Nigerians spent more hours using cybernetic tools to communicate and more money was spent on airtime and data to keep their mobile phone running during the trying period of COVID-19 rash. Majority of the sampled population spent their useful time on social medial as in Facebook, whattsapp, Instagram, YouTube and for social interactions and meetings. The implications of our findings are: majority of Nigeria may have computer linked diseases or syndrome such Sleeping Problems and others due to prolong uses of computers; the cybernetic tools (mobile phones, computer, laptop etc.) used by the infected people may be a carrier of the symptoms in the nearest future; Nigerians spent more on data and airtime credit in this trying period and it may affect their financial economy later. This work ends with proposal for roles to be played by Nigeria government and other stakeholders in cybernetic sustained communication processes for pandemic response and to prevent future outbreak of covid-19 after overcoming recent happenings, and also recommended organization strategy for workforce continuity and recovery.