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Roadmap
By Chiazo Ogbolu
Lagos, Oct. 26, 2016 (NAN) An ICT entrepreneur, Mr Rogba Adeoye, has charged the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) to develop a roadmap on ICT to hasten Nigeria’s development.
Adeoye, who was a former President of the Information Technology Systems Security Professionals, made the call in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Wednesday in Lagos.
“There is need to move the country and its economy forward using ICT.
“ICT stakeholders should come together, sit down, set a roadmap so as to have an achievable target; this will go a long way in helping the country.
The ICT expert also harped on the need for Nigeria to have a national identity data base to tackle its rising security challenges.
“If we can identify ourselves, it will go a long way in solving the country’s recurrent security issues.
“NITDA should partner with the National Identity Management Commission to set up a technical conference to solve this identity problem,’’ he said.
On the need to regulate ICT practice and other related issues in Nigeria, Adeoye advised NITDA to focus on making sure that government organisations utilised ICT to the fullest.
He said that NITDA should help government agencies in tackling their technology challenges.
“The bank verification number is a case in point of how utilising IT has assisted the banks with their uniform accounting code for customers’ account security.
“NITDA can also assist other organisations like the National Population Commission.
“They can help resolve some technical challenges they may have in ensuring that people’s data are obtained properly during census.
“NITDA should find ways to work with other organisations to resolve their challenges because these challenges are not entirely money issues, some are technical data harmonisation.’’
NITDA is a parastatal agency in the Federal Ministry of Communications.
It has the task of creating frameworks for planning, research, evaluation and regulating of IT practice and activities. (NAN)
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Edited by Oluyinka Fadare/Silas Nwoha