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Fresh Agenda Setting for New NCS President, Aladekomo (Emma Okonji)
- By Chams News-Desk
- Published 22/08/2011
The newly elected President of Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), Dr. Demola Aladekomo has been challenged to inject fresh ideas that will raise vibrancy and stimulate growth of the association.
A cross examination of Information Technology practitioners who are registered professionals of the association who bare their minds shortly after Aladekomo emerged NCS President, challenged him to restructure NCS and introduce a functionally directorate structure that will bring about the employment of several Executive Directors that will take care of strategic developments of the association. The Executive Directors according to them are to run the Secretariat along side the Executive Secretary.
They want NCS to remain as an advocacy group that will monitor government activities and direct government on IT policy that will move the nation forward, explaining that the strength of NCS as an advocacy has not been felt, especially in monitoring government activities.
"It is not sufficient to organise yearly conferences but to make government accountable for IT development. There are lots of irregularities leading to massive fraud in government circles in the area of online transactions through ATM and e-payment systems. NCS as an advocacy group should put search light on government e-transactions in order to reduce waste and fraud in government, and monitor government operations that are digitally driven," they said.
They urged Aladekomo to insist on registration of all IT professionals with the Computer Professionals Registration Council (CPN) and NCS, insisting that only registered and qualified IT professionals should be allowed to handle government jobs relating to IT.
Enforcing the use of IT tools to track government businesses is another area that they want the new NCS President to focus attention on.
For effective coordination of all State Chapters and for proper implementation and enforcement of IT Policy, some of the stakeholders want Aladekomo to pursue the creation of Information Development Agency in all states of the federation to complement the efforts of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), a federal government parastatal that is involved in the formulation and implementation of IT policy and infrastructure development at the federal level.
They were of the view that its creation will boost IT development in all the states of the federation.