The federal government
infrastructure company, the Galaxy Backbone plc is collaborating the Defence
Headquarters is (DHtrs) to host an Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
forum for defence sector next week Thursday, March 15 at the nation’s capital,
Abuja.
Disclosing
this, the Managing Director, Galaxy Backbone, Mr. Gerald Ilukwe, said that the Defence
Sector ICT forum is a Stakeholders’ Awareness Series (SAS) hosted by his
company to stimulate dialogue on how stakeholders in the defence, intelligence
and security community could leverage the benefits of Information and
Communication Technologies to meet contemporary security challenges.
“The
forum is particularly pertinent given the current national security situation
and the general acceptance that ICTs will play a vital role in addressing such
challenges,” he said.
Ilukwe noted that as Nigeria continue to face
challenging and uncertain threats to its national security her defence
services, intelligence and security agencies must be prepared to conduct a wide
range of operations from conflict prevention through counter-terrorist
strategies to international peacekeeping and warfare operations.
To achieve this, he pointed out that information
and communications technology (ICT) related planning in defence and national
security has to meet extremely diverse needs that revolve around ICT
investments and planning, increasing efficiency and streamlining processes.
A press statement endorsed by
the Marketing Communications Manager, Mr. Franklyn Eke and made available to ITRealms Online, showed that the theme for
the forum is, “Integrated ICT Framework for the Defence Sector: An Imperative
for National Security.”
The format of the forum, he
further said, would involve the presentation of papers to be followed by panel
discussions.
The papers, he said, to be
discussed would comprise issues that border on integrating ICT for national
security and associated challenges and strategies.
Other areas of interest, he
said, would include the role ICT could play in contemporary defence and
national security planning.
“A rich blend of
international and local resource persons drawn from the military, security
agencies and the ICT industry have been carefully selected to ensure rich and
robust deliberations,” he said.
The audience, according to him, is expected to be
made up of senior officers from the defence services, security agencies, other
government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) and the ICT Industry.
The honourable Minister of Defence has been
confirmed as the special guest of honour while the Honourable Minister of
Communications Technology would be the guest of honour.
Remmy Nweke
ITREALMS Online ... delivering news for ICT4D
1 comment:
interesting... ow do i get to participate
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