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ity among members, is gradually increasing the adoption rate of IT services among civil and public workers.
Omosola called on government at the federal, state and local levels, to provide funding for its programmes and activities, and as well release government staff to attend its training programmes and workshops. “We are working towards ensuring that government implements career programme for IT professionalism and that IT is used to drive government business,” he said.
He is of the view that collaboration with government agency like the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), the agency responsible for IT implementation in the country, will further strengthen its initiative on shared services that will benefit people in civil and public service. Importance of the summit Speaking on the importance of the summit to government and members of the interest group, the president said the summit is an avenue to showcase products and services of IT professionals in civil and public service. The summit also seeks to address anomalies in government circle, especially as it affects civil and public service workers.
He called for harmonisation and integration of data across ministries, departments and agencies of government (MDAs), insisting that Nigeria needs a common database that should be coordinated by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC).
“As interest group of NCS, we are apostle of local content advocacy, which we believe will increase GDP growth of the country. There is need for the implementation of local content law because we have the law, but implementation is an issue. Local content development and patronage will help to diversify our energy from oil and gas to ICT,” Omosola said.
IT growth Expressing his views about IT growth in the country, Omosola said: “Nigeria has talented youths that are IT savvy and we are collaborating with government agency to provide funds for technology startup to develop more local apps that will address the needs of Nigerians and the government.
He spoke against quackery in the IT profession and called on government to empower CPN to regulate and eliminate quackery in the IT profession, adding that it will help drive IT growth in the country.