CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1  BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The manual ways of sourcing, processing, storing and general handling of information by Imo State Government is a kind of cumbersome time consuming and at peak delayance during project tracking, file finding when needed in the office, considering high level of bureaucracy adopted by governments in this part of the world with Imo State as a reference point. As this ugly development proceeds, during record keeping and other valuable files and information, therefore this usage of computers tracking projects and information was formed as it becomes imperative for improved information storage and tracking, stores large amounts of information, reduces so much paper work in various offices, institutions, organizations and ministries under Imo State Government. It also enables smooth distributions and enlarges information via transferring of files through computer networks. This would go along way assisting Imo State Government to take vital decision makings when it is due for it.
1.2   STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Be it in government, private sector, institution, business etc. the usage of this manual method of information storage, organization and retrieval is always the talk of the day. This therefore poses a lot of problems which are as follows.
1.          Inability to know when projects are awarded.
2.          Inability to know when to receive projects.
3.          Poor checkmating of project awarded.
·        Abnormal documentation of project statistics
4.          Poor documentation, security in the offices, institutions etc.
1.3    OBJECTIVE OF THE STUDY
The research work is founded on the following objectives and they are described thus;
·        To build an application that will store, process and activate information about all the projects awarded.
·        To design and develop an application package that will be useful for the tracking of project information for Imo State Government. This design is made from a specification and office procedure that allow its development for Imo State government.
·        Software that watches all projects step by step.
·        Software that will secure and enhance adequate project security when used.
·        Application that keeps tracking of projects and it statistics.
1.4      SCOPE OF THE STUDY
This project entirely covers specifically the projects and its information with focus on the design and development of application prototypes meant to be deployed in tracking information as well as storage and retrieval respectively.
1.5     SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The importance of this study to Imo State Government is tremendous as it will go along way in making great impacts on our state pride and social tolerance.  
However, this will ensure that accurate information is kept and this application will be capable of making our sate transparent in her profit dealings. This therefore goes a long wall in encouraging the stability of Imo State Government during project execution and can also be used by the government to attract more federal government projects considering the high sense of good project tracking system in use.