Uwaje Promises N100bn Stimulus Package for IT Devt

Chairman of Mobile Software Solutions, Mr. Chris Uwaje, has promised to generate N100 billion as government stimulus package for Information Technology (IT) development in Nigeria in two years (2015 to 2017), if voted as President of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) in the next election slated for July 2015.

Apart from the stimulus package, Uwaje has also promised to raise the present status of the NCS capacity, from 10,000 to 100,000 IT professionals, within two years, among several other initiatives.

These are

part

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his manifestos, published on his website, in preparation for the NCS election in July this year.

Uwaje, who has wealth of IT and leadership experiences, said he would use the experience to transform NCS, recover lost grounds and take the society to an enviable level.

Other initiatives mpromised by Uwaje, include the establishment of Computer Science Lecturers Innovation Forum; NCS IT Business Forum; Council of IT Past Presidents of NCS, Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), and Provosts of College of Fellows; NCS Annual Fellow Dinner; Youth Forum for Innovative and National IT Hackathon; Entrepreneurial Forum for National Association of Computer Science Students (NACOSS).

Uwaje said with these initiatives, he would use Information and Communications Technology (ICT), to positively reorganise the current settings in the national IT ecosystem, with a view to repositioning NCS and make it an enviable society that every government with IT initiative, cannot do without.

“The primary objective of these initiatives, is to establish an all-inclusive National IT forum as the technology pinnacle and organisational structure, which will deliberate on the challenges in the national IT ecosystem. The Initiatives will also proffer solutions on how National IT/ Education Innovations, Entrepreneurial Mission, Business Activities, Project Initiatives and Social Media, can be better domesticated and coordinated for maximum interest, youth employment and wealth creation impact,” Uwaje said.

Other contenders in the race are Mr. Sam Juwe, a one time first Vice President of NCS, and Prof. Sola Aderounmu, the current Deputy President of NCS, who is the Head of Computer Science Department, Obafemi Awolowo University Ile-Ife, Osun State.