The Managing Director and chief
executive officer (CEO) of Precise Financial Systems (PFS), Mr. Yele Okeremi
has advised the Federal Government to establish the Office of the Chief
Information Officer (CIO) General for the Federation, reports ITRealms.
Speaking at the recent meeting of ICT
stakeholders held in Ibadan, Oyo State, Mr. Okeremi said the federation’s CIO
would oversee the spending of the federal government as well as the strategic
planning of all federal Information Technology (IT) investments.
The CIO’s office, he said, should be
charged with establishing a government-wide enterprise architecture that would
ensure system interoperability, information-sharing and maintain effective
information security and privacy controls across the federal government.
He also asked the Ministry of
Communications (MoC) as presently consisted to focus on development,
implementation and evaluation of the relevant IT policies for the country.
Okeremi, who is the immediate past
Chairman of the Local Organising Committee (LOC) of DEMO Africa, hosted in
Nigeria in 2014 and 2015, advised the Ministry of Communications to strengthen
the Office of ICT Innovations and Entrepreneurship (OIIE).
This, he said, would enable the OIIE to
access the required resources and power to support incubation centre hubs
while facilitating collaboration between the incubation centres and hubs with
industry practitioners, particularly the software houses.
ITRealms recalled that the OIIE
was established to nurture, cultivate and expand ICT innovation and
entrepreneurship in Nigeria in line with NITDA Act 2007 and the National ICT
Policy.
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