Osun '13: VP Sambo, Johnson for NCS confab

From right, is chairman publicity, events and conferences, Mr. Jide Awe,
NCS president, Sir Demola Aladekomo, first vice president, Mr. Sam Juwe,
Executive Secretary, Mr. Chinedu Onuoha and Director,
Corporate Affairs, Mr. Iyiola Ayoola at the briefing in Lagos on Thursday.

Vice President, Federal Republic of Nigeria, Architect Namadi Sambo and Communications Technology Minister, Mrs. Omobola Johnson are to lead the Federal Government (FG) delegation to the  11^th international conference of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) billed to hold in the State of Osun between 24 and 26 this month.

This is coming as the outgoing president of NCS, Sir Demola Aladekomo has disclosed that he would not go for a second term and called for domestication of local content bill per sector to make more meaning.

Confirming this to DigitalSENSE Business News, Thursday in Lagos, Aladekomo said that both Vice President Sambo and Mrs. Johnson would be special guest of honours at the three-day conference on “e-Government and National Security.” 

He also said that his decision to run only for a term in office as president of NCS was made at the inception of his leadership and immediately after his election, about 24 months ago.

He insisted that he was not being pushed out, but a way of building capacity within the NCS structure for the larger benefit of the Nigerian entity.

President, Aladekomo, who was accompanied by the first vice president, Mr. Sam Juwe, chairman publicity, events and conferences, Mr. Jide Awe, the Executive Secretary of the society, Mr. Chinedu Onuoha and Director, Corporate Affairs, Mr. Iyiola Ayoola, said that the chief host for this year and Governor of State of Osun, Ogbeni Rauf Aregbesola would be at hand to welcome participants.

He equally disclosed to DigitalSENSE Business News that this year’s conference, would have a session tagged governors’ forum to enable top senior officials of government to have a tit-a-tat on the theme for this year, while industry papers would be delivered by expert members of NCS drawn from both locally and internationally.

NCS, he said, is determined to change how governance is delivered, adding that one of the best assignment executed during his tenure include the 30-year plan for Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

“We shall be glad if it's implemented. Quite a lot of work has been done, including the subject on ICT parks, job fairs, incubation. So, the two years have been most fulfilling.

On local content, Aladekomo said that this could spur from development of sector-based aspect of the bill to make an impact on every sector of the economy in Nigeria, which could be achieved by placing high tariff on foreign brands.

“We need to domesticate the local content bill and we have done several presentations to the government and we will continue to advocate for it in IT industry,” he said, stressing that the main role of NCS is advocacy.

Pointing out that before now, NCS advocated for the Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) and once accepted or adopted it will go round the government through its agencies ministries and departments,

Aladekomo emphasized that PKI when enthroned in the system would help in dealing with identification process via the infrastructure on who is doing what, mostly in terms of committing crime.

Nigeria has done extremely well because we have been the country that make the most use of Information since these era of technology revolution.

DigitalSENSE Business News recalls that NCS conference has been scheduled to hold at the Royal Park Hotel, Iloko Ijesa, Osun State and would attracts practitioners, decision makers, policy makers and professionals from Nigeria from across the world.

Remmy Nweke/DigitalSENSE Business News

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