The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), a
parastatal of the Nigerian Federal Ministry of Communication Technology has
concluded plans to host an IT stakeholder workshop for the purpose of
fine-tuning draft standards and guidelines for made- in- Nigeria IT hardware
products. The workshop which is scheduled for May 15 and 16, 2012 shall hold at
the Westown hotel Ikeja Lagos.
The IT standards retreat is being coordinated on the platform of the
National Technical Committee (NTC) on IT Standards. The NTC was established by
NITDA as a specialized organ for IT standards development in the country. The
Hon Minister for Communication Technology inaugurated the Committee in November
last year. The prescription of minimum standards for Nigerian IT products is
intended to:
·
Ensure that made-in-Nigeria IT products meet global
standards
·
Ensure that Nigerians would have no more excuse not to
patronize made-in Nigeria
·
Consolidate the
NITDA campaign for Nigerians to buy made-in-Nigeria products in IT
·
Provide the enabling framework for the development of the
indigenous IT sector
The Director-General of NITDA, Prof Cleopas Angaye, is expected to use the
occasion of the workshop to remind Government MDAs that the Federal Government
mandatory policy which requires the public sector to procure low end Nigerian
IT products is still in force.
The Agency has created an Online Public Complaints Platform to track any
disregard for the policy and to monitor compliance to minimum standards by
product manufacturers in accordance with section 6 of the NITDA Act of 2007.
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