The Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) is demanding the creation of a national software board.
President, ISPON, Chief Chris Uwaje told DigitalSENSE Business News at post-2013 annual conference media chat in Lagos, Thursday, that this call has become imperative to spell doubts over the efficacy of Nigerian software.
Uwaje who was accompanied by some directors of ISPON including Mr. James Emadoye of BSSL Technologies Ltd, Michael Chinwuba of Signal Alliance, and Moses Briamah, said that Nigeria software industry has come a long way and proved itself over time.
According to him, the national software board being canvassed by ISPON would strengthen the software industry in Nigeria through adequate certifications, in order to make local software from Nigeria globally acceptable.
Although he agreed to the fact that there is no software that is error free, which give rise to various versions and patches, Uwaje stressed that why ISPON is demanding for a national software board, is to be a clearing house for locally Nigerian software.
“We are demanding for a national software board, so that whoever is claiming he or she has developed this or that, they will be approved with relevant specifications,” he said.
Uwaje pointed out that any software to be implemented locally must pass through this board when eventually its set up.
ISPON, therefore urged the Federal Government, through the Ministry of Communications Technology to create the board and give them the international best practices as reference points and they will work with it.
He insisted that Nigerian software is not substandard to any software within a given category globally.
“We challenge whoever says Nigerian software is not working to a television debate,” he declared, underscoring that the national software board when in place, will oversee software within the operating systems, application and database software.
DigitalSENSE Business News recalls that ISPON national software conference and competition held at Tinapa Knowledge City, Tinapa, Calabar Cross-Rivers State, with the theme “Software Strategies for Retooling the Workforce” with focus on the character of ICT innovation, skill and national development.
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Pix: Chris Uwaje, James Emadoye, Michael Chinwuba Moses Briamah
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