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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.
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