Pay attention to indigenous products — Uwaje

For transparent leadership and governance, the immediate President of Institute of Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON, Chris Uwaje who has been preaching local content said that the incoming government must pay attention to locally developed solution to free the country from digital slavery of the western powers.

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“I am concerned, just like other IT Professionals that while technology is at the center of the electoral processes, this is the time to pay attention to IT as the bedrock of national development. “General Muhammadu Buhari may not deliver the dividend of democracy, unless IT and IT professionals are at the centre of his leadership program” the Oracle of the Nigerian IT industry who championed the IT policy blueprint in 2001 said.
For a digital Nigeria, Uwaje noted that the present administration should set up one hundred billion (N100 billion)   startup transformation budget for ICT ecosystem. He said that this can yield three to five times of the amount in three years . Nothing short of that amount will work, if will want to see the big picture and engage great national transformation with Technology.
To resolve the national IT challenge, Uwaje who many industry watchers see as the next President of the Nigerian Computer Society, (NCS) said that the new government must do the following: *Establishment of the Office of the Chief Information Technology Officer of the Federation. *Refocus national IT Development Agenda on Digital Knowledge Capacity building and National Software Development.
* Establish a Presidential ICT Advisory council chaired by the President *Make the patronage of Indigenous Software and Hardware mandatory and priority for both he Public and Private Sector. *Encourage the establishment of ICT-enabled Outsourcing Centres *Establishment of at lease 12 Digital Knowledge/IT Parks within the next 24 months
*Upgrade the Computer Science Department in Nigerian Universities into a Faculty of Computer Science to spur and accelerate Innovation and creativity. *Encourage the contractual recruitment and engagement of at lease, 2,000 Foreign Computer Science & IT Lectures to collaborate with Nigerian lecturers in Computer Science re-engineer computer Science education for the next 4 years.
To actualize this, according to the Presidential aspirant of NCS, government   should establish a N100 billion Litmus Package to invigorate Innovation in the ICT Domain and also establish a special platform for National Competition on Digital Knowledge Hackathon and IT Innovation. This should be named: DEMO Nigeria
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