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POLICY STATEMENTS, OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES OF INFRASTRUCTURE FOR KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY

POLICY STATEMENTS, OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES OF INFRASTRUCTURE FOR KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY. BY National Software Policy Committee National Information Technology Development Agency Abuja, Nigeria AT 2013 IT Professionals Assembly Nicon Luxury Abuja, Nigeria. POLICY STATEMENTS.

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  1. POLICY STATEMENTS, OBJECTIVES AND STRATEGIES OF INFRASTRUCTURE FOR KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY BY National Software Policy Committee National Information Technology Development Agency Abuja, Nigeria AT 2013 IT Professionals Assembly Nicon Luxury Abuja, Nigeria

  2. POLICY STATEMENTS • Government shall recognize the IT Sector as a component of Critical National Information Infrastructure (CNII) deserving of Pioneer Status and shall promote incentives for ITinvestors, developers and solution providers. • Government shall promote the conceptualization, development, procurement, deployment, operation, monitoring, evaluation and maintenance of critical infrastructure to drive the Information Technology industry in line with global best practices and competitiveness. • Government shall enact legislative, regulatory and institutional framework that will catalyze the growth of IT industry and facilitate the growth of knowledge economy in Nigeria. • Government shall promote the use of IT in critical and strategic sectors, such as Electoral Processes, Defence, Immigration, Custom, National Security, National Population, National Planning, Public Administration, Culture, Media, Agriculture, Education, Health, Oil & Gas, Finance and Energy. • Government and the private sectors shall encourage the advancement of Research, Innovation and Development (RID) in IT

  3. POLICYOBJECTIVES • Prescribe and protect critical infrastructure to enhance the emergence, growth and development of a sustainable IT industry. • Develop a roadmap for the provision of critical infrastructure to make Nigeria an IT hub in West Africa, Africa and the global market. • Recognize and accord high priority to Critical National Information Technology Infrastructure (CNITI) such as electricity, communications and transportation to drive the IT industry in Nigeria. • Promote the development of human capital and infrastructure in IT. • Provide and support the economic conditions that will enable the creation of a vibrant IT industry. • Control and reduce the rate of capital flight through importation of foreign IT products and services. • Promote IT capacity (human capital and infrastructure) building for the adoption and growth of indigenous IT products and services in the critical and strategic areas of the economy.

  4. POLICYOBJECTIVES Contd. • Promote Nigeria as a hub for IT research, innovation and development in Africa. • Promote the establishment of a national Collaborative Emergency Response Team (CERT) for Nigeria. • Promote Research, Innovation and Development (RID) driven by national orientation and contents in IT. • Promote the development of knowledge based system for appraisal (testing, measurement and certification), procurement, deployment, management and performance evaluation of IT human capital, infrastructure, products, services and markets.

  5. POLICY STRATEGIES • Providing adequate budgetary appropriation for the establishment and sustainability of computer (hardware and software) engineering laboratories in Nigerian educational institutions.   • Ensuring the provision of functional IT infrastructure such as electrical energy (thermal, wind, solar and biomass); telephone (terrestrial, mobile and broadband); fibre optics and Internet connectivity to enhance the development of IT industry and promote collaborative teaching and learning (e-learning, distance learning, open-university system, etc.). • Ensuring the provision of adequate facilities for harnessing the growth and development of informal sector (mobile and computer villages) in IT. • Establishing purpose-built IT park, especially for the development of embedded systems, indigenous software platforms and interfaces.

  6. POLICY STRATEGIES Contd. • Encouraging the co-existence and cooperation of the emerging software development platforms (proprietary software system and open source software system). • Developing adequate procedure and technical guidelines for evaluating the performance of Critical National Information Technology Infrastructure (CNITI). • Promoting diverse models for Public-Private Partnership (PPP) initiatives to develop, nurture and protect Critical National Information Technology Infrastructure (CNITI). • Reviving and repositioning Terrestrial Fixed Line/Dial-up Telephone Infrastructure as backup communications infrastructure for uninterrupted delivery of IT services. • Co-locating, monitoring and controlling communication infrastructure to minimize cost and ensure quality of service for IT industry.

  7. POLICY STRATEGIES Contd. • Enforcing compliance of public and private sectors on existing directive with the procurement of indigenous branded IT products and services through regulation. • Ensuring adequate coordination and supervision of the operational capability of existing Public Information Gateways (PIGs). • Ensuring the collaboration of the appropriate organs of government towards integrating conventional public library system with electronic library system and establish new ones. • Ensuring that annual sector surveys of IT human capital and infrastructure in both public and private sectors are carried out for the provision of critical data that would guide sector growth plans. • Ensuring that some of the transponders being deployed on NigComSat.R1 is reserved for software development, access, cloud computing and security to accelerate the diffusion of local contents and solutions.

  8. POLICY STRATEGIES Contd. • Creation of incentive measures for Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) in the establishment of IT Parks in the FCT, States and Local Governments of Nigeria. • Developing a benchmark for quality assurance of IT products and services. • Providing a procedure for the classification, testing, measurement and certification of IT products and services to ensure total adherence to global standards and best practices. • Establishing regulatory and institutional frameworks to promote, protect and develop IT industry in Nigeria. • Promoting and facilitating the establishment of National Institute of IT Research, Innovation and Development and domiciliation of the proposed national Collaborative Emergency Response Team (CERT) in the National Institute. • Providing global best practice benchmarks for the classification, testing, measurement and certification of software products and services.

  9. CONCLUSIONS • There are many arms of Federal Government where similar infrastructure are replicated. For example, there are National Population Commission, Independent National Electoral Commission and National Identity Management Commission. All these arms of Federal Government handle biometric identification and authentication. Efforts should be made to collapse the infrastructure in one place, enhance their sharing for cost saving and prevention of frauds. • Quite a lot of fibre optics are laid along the roads in Nigeria today but there layout are not properly documented. Any re-constructions or re-habilitations of the roads call for a new layout of the fibre optics at a new cost. • The transmission of electricity from the power station to consumers are carried out through the jungle where reparable and irreparable damages are done to the transmission line naturally and otherwise. Underground transmission line and consumption line could be expensive initially but very cheap to maintain. Investment on rail transport that touches the major and minor cities could provide a clean path for transmission of national utilities such as electricity, oil and gas.

  10. CONCLUSIONS Contd. Given the existing political and socio-economic status of Nigeria in West Africa and Africa, the fundamentals exist for the emergence of Nigeria as a global competitor in the IT market with ancillary beneficial impact of poverty alleviation, gender equality, wealth and job creation in the society. There is evidence that the domestic market for IT products and services is huge: the data on increasing activity of global Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs), penetration of internet connectivity, mobile phone and computer usage, growth of national electronic databases etc, support this. The challenge facing Nigeria is how much of this market opportunity is linked to the emergence of a vibrant local IT economy and capability, as opposed to net negative capital flight and job losses to international competition. Thus, while indigenous ITis capable of reducing the existing capital flight through foreign IT, it also has the capacity to attract tremendous foreign earnings desirable for accelerated growth of Nigerian economy. The National IT Policy is pivotal in answering this question.

  11. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Special thank to the sponsors and organizers of this IT Assembly for the privilege and honour given to me to present this paper. I thank the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Abuja and the members of the National Software Policy Committee for their support on the development of National Software Policy. Thanks also to the audience for listening.

  12. REFERENCES • Akinyokun O. C., 2011. Format of National Software Policy Document. Proceedings of the Retreat of National Software Policy Committee, Lagos Airport Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria • Armstrong Takang, 2011. Software: A critical Tool for Knowledge, Job and Wealth creation in Nigeria. Proceedings of the Retreat of National Software Policy Committee, Lagos Airport Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria. • e-Nigeria, 2007. Proceedings of e-Nigeria Conference on Software Applications in Nigerian Economy, ECOWAS Conference Hall, Abuja • e-Nigeria, 2005. Proceedings of e-Nigeria Conference on ICT Deployment for Sustainable Development in Nigerian Rural Areas, ECOWAS Conference Hall, Abuja • e-Nigeria, 2004. Proceedings of e-Nigeria Conference on Implementing the WSIS Process in West Africa, ECOWAS Conference Hall, Abuja • FMST, 2009. Reviewed National Information Technology Policy. Publication of Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, Abuja.

  13. REFERENCES Contd. • FMST, 2001. Nigerian National Policy for Information Technology (IT). Publication of Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, Abuja. • Hofstadler 1982. Godal, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Brand-A Metaphorical Fugue on Minds and Machines in the Spirit of Lewis Carol. Penguin Books Limited ISBN 0-140- 05579-7. • ICT4D 2010. ICT4D Strategic Plan for Economic Sectors of Nigeria. Publication of the Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, Abuja, Nigeria. • ISPON, 2002. Memorandum to Senate Public Hearing on Nigeria’s Status in Information and Communications Technology. ISPON Memorandum on Nigeria’s Status in ICT to Senate Special Hearing on ICT on March 12 – 13, 2002, Pages 1-25. • NDSI, 2005 Development of the Software Industry in Nigeria. Report of the National Software Development Initiative (NSDI). Publication of Innovative Systems Limited.

  14. REFERENCES Contd. • NEEDS, 2004. Meeting Everyone’s Needs: National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy. Publication of Nigerian National Planning Commission, Abuja. • NEPAD, 2010. Draft Protocol on Policy and Regulatory Framework for NEPAD ICT Broadband Infrastructure Network for Africa. Policy Document of the Ministers Responsible for ICT and Telecommunications in African Countries. • NEPAD, 2001. The New Partnership for African Development (NEPAD). Publication of Nigerian National Planning Commission, Abuja. • NSDTF, 2005. Nigerian Software Industry: Blueprint and Roadmap. Report of the National Software Development Task Force (NSDTF). Publication of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Federal Ministry of Science and Technology, Abuja.

  15. REFERENCES Contd. • Pius Okigbo (Jnr.), 2011. Software Industry in Nigeria: Challenges and Models for Development. Proceedings of the Retreat of National Software Policy Committee, Lagos Airport Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria. • Sahalu J., 2011. Impact of Software Engineering Curriculum in Tertiary Institutions and the Growth of Software Industry in Nigeria. Proceedings of the Retreat of National Software Policy Committee, Lagos Airport Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria. • Sowa J. L., 1984. Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machine. Addison Wesley Publishers, ISBN 0-201-14472-7. • Uwadia C. O., 2011. Collaborative Models for Growing National Software Industry, Deployment and Management in Nigeria. Proceedings of the Retreat of National Software Policy Committee, Lagos Airport Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria. • Uwaje Chris, 2011. Promoting Software Development in Nigeria: A Guide to Policy and Implementation Strategy. Proceedings of the Retreat of National Software Policy Committee, Lagos Airport Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria.

  16. REFERENCES Contd. • Pius Okigbo (Jnr.), 2011. Software Industry in Nigeria: Challenges and Models for Development. Proceedings of the Retreat of National Software Policy Committee, Lagos Airport Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria. • Sahalu J., 2011. Impact of Software Engineering Curriculum in Tertiary Institutions and the Growth of Software Industry in Nigeria. Proceedings of the Retreat of National Software Policy Committee, Lagos Airport Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria. • Sowa J. L., 1984. Conceptual Structures: Information Processing in Mind and Machine. Addison Wesley Publishers, ISBN 0-201-14472-7. • Uwadia C. O., 2011. Collaborative Models for Growing National Software Industry, Deployment and Management in Nigeria. Proceedings of the Retreat of National Software Policy Committee, Lagos Airport Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria. • Uwaje Chris, 2011. Promoting Software Development in Nigeria: A Guide to Policy and Implementation Strategy. Proceedings of the Retreat of National Software Policy Committee, Lagos Airport Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria.

  17. PROFILE OF PROFESSOR AKINYOKUN • Professor Oluwole Charles Akinyokun had BSc. First Class (Combined Honours) in Computer Science and Mathematics from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife, Osun State, Nigeria in 1979 and PhD in Computing Studies with specialization in Distributed Database System from the University of East Anglia, Norwich, United Kingdom in 1984. He took up academic career in Obafemi Awolowo University in October 1985 as a Lecturer I. He moved to the Federal University of Technology, Akure in September 1987 as a Senior Lecturer, became a Reader in October 1992 and Professor of Software Engineering in October 1995. He is a Commonwealth Scholar and Fellow, Fellow of Nigerian Computer Society (NCS), Member of the Computer Professional Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, British Computer Society (BCS) and American Computing Machinery (ACM). He was Nigerian Representative in the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) Technical Committee on Artificial Intelligence between 1992 and 1996. He is a Justice of Peace (JP). • His BSc. Dissertation was on pattern recognition and matching in lecture time table scheduling in university community. His PhD thesis was on the recognition and matching of views in a distributed database processing community, the nucleus of a distributed database/computer network research project that involved Eight British Universities sponsored by the Science and Engineering Research Council of United Kingdom .

  18. PROFILE OF PROFESSOR AKINYOKUN Contd. • He was a Consultant to the Federal Ministry of Commerce and Tourism on the computerization of the ministry’s operations in 1992 through 1993, Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) on the computerization of Value Added Tax (VAT) in 1994 through 1996, Ondo State Government on the establishment of Ondo State Government Management Information Centre in 1995 through 1997, Oyo State Government on the establishment of Oyo State Government Management Information Centre in 1997 through 2003, Resource Person to Osun State Government on the establishment of Osun State Government Bureau of Computer Services and Information Technology in 2004 through 2005 and Resource Person to the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) on the development of IT Policy, e-Nigeria, ICT4D, Baseline Study of IT human capital and infrastructure, Monitoring and Evaluation of NITDA Projects, and Engineering/and Deployment of Integrated Renewable Energy since 2004. Professor Akinyokun is the Chairman of National Software Policy Committee of Nigeria inaugurated on December 6, 2010.

  19. PROFILE OF PROFESSOR AKINYOKUN Contd. • ProfesssorAkinyokun attracted NCR Nigeria Ltd. endowment Fund on Computer Networks facilities to FUTA in 1990, First Bank of Nigeria Endowment Fund on Computer Science Professorial Chair to FUTA in 1997, Central Bank of Nigeria Endowment Fund on Computer Resource Centre to FUTA in 2002, University of Calgary, Canada Intervention on IT infrastructure and Capacity Building to FUTA in 2005, AfriHub Nigeria Ltd. Intervention on IT infrastructure and Capacity Building to Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun State in 2006, ETF Special Intervention Fund on ICT Centre to Federal Polytenic Ede, Ede, OsunStatein 2010, ETF Special Intervention Fund on IT Digital Resource Centre to FUTA in 2010 and NITDA Intervention on IT Capacity Building and infrastructure to FUTA in 2010. • Professor Akinyokun has been actively involved in Research, Innovation and Development (RID) in Knowledge Engineering in computer network environment since 1985. He ran the first Television Programme on computer awareness, appreciation and use in Nigeria for Thirteen Weeks on Ondo State Television in 1996. He was a Guest Speaker on Issues of the Moment: Cultism in Tertiary Institutions in Nigeria in 1997. He has featured prominently as a Reviewer to many reputable Journals and Conference Proceedings, External Examiner and Assessor to many Nigerian and overseas universities. His publications have featured prominently in many reputable national and international conference proceedings and journals.

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