NITDA partners Accenture on e-government

By Emmanuel Elebeke

The National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA is to partner with Accenture on capacity building in the area of e-government.

Accenture is a global management company that develops capacity plan, training and technical assistance.

The Director General of NITDA Mr. Peter Jack made this known while receiving the Accenture team who paid him a courtesy visit in his Abuja office recently.

The DG noted that the focus of his administration was to position the agency as prime catalyst for national transformation for global competitiveness.

He also noted that his agency and Accenture are partners in progress which have achieved so much in the IT industry. He believed that the partnership would spur the two institutions to greater height.

Reacting, Managing Director of Accenture Mr. Niyi Yusuf assured NITDA management that Accenture as a global management company and as an independent consulting company will put its wealth of experience in order to achieve the desired goals of the partnership.

…Inaugurates 2014 eNigeria LOC

In a related development, the agency also announced the formal inauguration of the 2014 Local Organisating Committee LOC for the e-Nigeria Conference.

e-Nigeria is the nation’s premier annual gathering of   ICT stakeholders, professionals and enthusiasts from both public and private sectors across the globe. It is aimed at showcasing and promoting Nigeria’s viable but largely under tapped  IT sector potentials.

The theme of this year’s event is: “Creating Market Opportunities for Indigenous ICT Products and Services”.   The theme, according to the agency, was particularly chosen to promote Made in Nigeria ICT Products and Services, just like whenit launched the Framework and Guildlines for Nigerian Content in Information Technology during eNigeria 2013.

As part of objective of the eNigeria conference 2014, the LOC is to ensure among others that it identify tech start-ups as well as ICT related research and innovations and showcase them like in other international exhibitions.

The conference is also intended to explore strategies for providing critical mass of employment through ideas, innovations and investment opportunities while creating policies targeted at improving the qualities of indigenous ICT products and services for global competitiveness.

The membership of the LOC was drawn from various ICT bodies including the Nigeria Computer Society, Computer Professionals of Nigeria, Information Technology Association of Nigeria, Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, the media, other interest groups and representatives of other Ministries, Agencies and Departments.


- Culled from: http://www.vanguardngr.com