The
National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and a World Bank subsidiary,
Growth and Employment in States (GEMS) met at the weekend culminating in
signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the building of capacity on Information
and Communication Technology (ICT) skills of Nigerians, reports ITRealms.
Head, Corporate
Affairs, NITDA, Mrs. Hadiza Umar, disclosing this to ITRealms that the ‘draft’
MoU will include the rights and obligations of the parties for the purpose of
implementing GEMS Programme that will cover areas such as Software testing,
Professional Certification Programmes, Software Apps, e-Commerce mobile Apps, Business
Process Outsourcing among others.
She
also said that at the end of a meeting session at NITDA headquarter, Abuja, the
Acting Director General of the Agency, Dr. Vincent Olatunji informed the World Bank
team that the present administration has the political will to drive the
successful implementation of the programme to fruition.
Olatunji
was quoted as saying the political will of this administration is working for
us in the ICT sector in the country because the government is looking for means
of diversifying the economy and ICT sector has been identified as one of the
area that could tap into.
“There
is assurance from the government on this. The minister with supervision from
the office of the Vice president is committed to ensure that ICT drives the
country's economy,” Dr. Olatunji assured.
He
also said that now the government is more focused to reposition ICT as the next
cash cow of the country which informed her decision to establish of 12
innovation hubs across the six geo political zones.
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Pix: Ag. DG of NITDA, Dr. Vincent Olatunji and Mr. Andrew Gartside of World Bank's GEMS.
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