Driving IT Professionalism in the Public Sector
Emma Okonji examines the importance of the annual summit of Nigeria Information Technology Professionals in the Civil and Public Service in enhancing IT professionalism among its members
In spite of the fact that Information Technology (IT) enables efficiency in government processes, civil service workers appear to be slow in adopting technologies that are creating a lot of disruptions in the technology space. But the annual summit of Nigeria Information Technology Professionals in Civil and Public Service, which is an interest group of the Nigerian Computer Society (NCS) is designed to address the situation and to add value to IT professionalism.
This year’s three-day summit, which is holding in Abuja, with the theme, ‘Achieving National Economic Recovery and Growth – The Role of Information and Communications Technology’, runs from December 13-15.
Enhancing IT professionalism The summit, which is endorsed by NCS and Computer Professional Registration Council of Nigeria (CPRN), seeks to use IT as an enabler to help government deliver value to its citizens. The platform will afford ICT professional and other critical users the opportunity to distill the role ICT in achieving and driving the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan (ERGP) agenda of the President Muhammadu Buhari-led administration. The three-day summit agenda underpins technology in government 2017, showcasing best in class government projects and technology implementations, discussing the future of public sector service delivery and offering innovative strategies for a more effective technology enabled public sector. The summit offers value across the whole spectrum of the public sector and job titles within the policy, technology, digital, security and communications space.
Government support Considering the importance of the summit in driving IT professionalism, the National President, Nigeria Information Technology Professionals in Civil and Public Service, Mr. Raphael Omosola (FNCS), told THISDAY that the annual summit, which seeks to build capac-