NITDA says eNigeria confab will focus on local content in IT

While inaugurating the Local Organising Committee of the event in Abuja, Daura remarked that eNigeria has been specially designed to address issues geared towards enhancing local content in the deployment of IT in the Nigerian economy.The confab, according to him, will examine and proffer key strategies that would enhance Nigeria’s content in IT, reposition products […]

While inaugurating the Local Organising Committee of the event in Abuja, Daura remarked that eNigeria has been specially designed to address issues geared towards enhancing local content in the deployment of IT in the Nigerian economy.
The confab, according to him, will examine and proffer key strategies that would enhance Nigeria’s content in IT, reposition products and services as well as promote requisite framework for empowering indigenous IT entrepreneurs in order to contribute to Nigeria’s gross domestic product.
 Besides, the summit is also expected to draw up a framework for providing critical employment through IT and other digital opportunity windows just as it will examine challenges and factors militating against IT local content development in the country, the DG said.
He said the outcome is expected to present a framework for adequately positioning Nigeria among the top leading IT economies across the globe.
This year’s event, according to him, is expected to hold from December 3-5, at the Shehu Yar’Adua International Conference in Abuja with the theme: IT Local Content in Nigeria, the Journey so far.
 Dr Pat Utomi among other speakers from both the local and international scene would speak at the event.
 Utomi will be expected to share is wealth of knowledge on the nation as it borders on a knowledge economy driven through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) as an enormous tool that drives major economies across the globe.