At least not more than five States in Nigeria now boost of
Information Technology (IT) policies at the states level, DigitalSENSE Business News can
authoritatively report.
The acting Director-General of the National Information
Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr. Ashiru Sani Daura, disclosed this to
DigitalSENSE Business News in
an exclusive interview at the just concluded second meeting of the National
Council on Communication Technology (NCCT) in Akure.
According to him, Niger, Enugu and State of Osun as well as
Akwa-Ibom and Kano can now boast of their own IT policies at the States level.
NITDA, he said, is looking forward to collaborating with
other states across the country to develop their respective IT policies,
stressing that this year alone, more of such collaboration should be expected
before the end of this fiscal year.
This expectation, he said, is positive that NITDA made
effort to include the development of IT policies in the states in its current
budget, even as he disclosed that Rivers State is gearing up for joining the
league of States with IT policies before
the third NCCT.
For Dr. Daura, he expects that in the next two years or
less, NITDA with the collaboration of the States government will complete the
development of IT policies across the nation.
We are collaborating with them to develop the IT policies.
Now, we have put in our budget to have more states to collaborate with. And
even if you can recall, Rivers announced at the Council section, they will like
to be among the next set. They requested that and if we can,
“We will like to have more states and this will be over, may
be in the next two years or few years, so that this will be over,” he declared.
Adding that already, Akwa-Ibom and Kano have their policies in
place and there are others like that in some parts of the country.
“So, what we have to do is to work on the remaining ones
that do not have,” he told DigitalSENSE
Business News.
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