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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
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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
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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 9
utilities such as electricity, oil and gas.
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.
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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.
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REFERENCES Contd.
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Hotel, Lagos, Nigeria.
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PROFILE OF PROFESSOR AKINYOKUN
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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).
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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 .
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PROFILE OF PROFESSOR AKINYOKUN Contd.
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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.
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PROFILE OF PROFESSOR AKINYOKUN Contd.
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Professsor Akinyokun 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, Osun
Statein 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.
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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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