Wednesday, October 2, 2013

NITDA boss canvasses enlightenment, collaboration on ICT

  


Anthony Nwakaegho/DigitalSENSE Business News

The Acting Director General, Nigeria’s National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) Dr. Ashiru Daura says that the country need mass enlightenment and collaboration about the information communication technology (ICT) sector if the vision 20:2020 target is to be attained.

Daura made this remark while playing host to the delegation of the Nigerian Computer Society (NCS) led by its new president, Professor David Adewumi, in Abuja and stated that NCS had been playing an important role in accelerating IT development in Nigeria.

DigitalSENSE Business News learnt that Daura pointed out that even though Nigeria is taking the back seat in global rankings as shown by the country’s position on the global e-readiness index, ICT penetration was gradually improving and there is still  need to do more to occupy the front seat in Africa.
The NCS president, Professor David Adewumi, called for strategic partnerships in programmes and projects relating to research and development (R&D), cyber security, IT-enabled employment generation, promotion of excellence and professionalism in the industry and IT policy formulation that are of immense benefit to the country.

He explained that the goals of NITDA are in line with the core objectives of the NCS and applauded the NITDA boss for not only sponsoring but also taking time out to attend NCS’s last conference at Iloko Ijesa, Osun State.


DigitalSENSE Business News gathered that NITDA is the clearing house for IT projects in the public sector with the mandate to bring government and its services closer to the people through IT.


 DigitalSENSE Business News

... Making SENSE of digital revolution!

No comments: