IT Outsourcing reduces costs of production –Prof. Angaye

THE Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Prof. Cleopas Angaye, has identified that the use of outsourcing in the information technology (IT) sector would not only lead to better productivity but also drastic reduction in the cost of production.

Prof. Angaye through the director of Software and Outsourcing Department of the agency, Dr. Ashiru Daura at the maiden West African IT Outsourcing Exhibition held recently in Lagos, noted that Nigeria needs to do what India did to become one of the top sort after when it comes to IT outsourcing all over the world.

The NITDA boss also asserted that there’s the need for an enabling environment as well as infrastructural development before the country could attain a particular growth in the IT sector.

According to Prof. Angaye, every stakeholder has a role to play hence he urged every stakeholders to have and imbibe trust and credibility in their value system structure, and competitions that support the growth of the industry and not the one that leads to the extinction of competitors.

Also speaking at the exhibition, Director, Business Development and Marketing, Premier Business School, Abuja, Mr. Peter Jack commended the National Outsourcing Policy of 2007 and the establishment of an outsourcing department in NITDA.

He also commended the agency’s creation of the National Association of Information Technology Outsourcing Companies; a body DigitalSENSE News recalled was set up earlier this year by the agency with a N20 million take-off fund.

Jack pointed out that the National Outsourcing Policy states that outsourcing occurs anytime one enterprise makes a contract with another to perform a process that is done internally by the party taking by the first enterprise.

Highlighting the merits of IT outsourcing in Nigeria, Mr. Jack said, organizations would focus on the core business of the organization rather than being distracted as a result new technology introduction.

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