Being a paper presented by Dr Jimson Olufuye, ITAN President and Board member WITSA at the 2010 eNigeria Conference with the theme: Nigeria’s ICT4D Plan and Global e-Payment Adoption Ranking: Implications for Vision 20-2020.
The“Bermuda Declaration” for the ICT sector ____ “As we are all witnessing the world is going through a revolution driven by IT. Business, government, education, the media – all are being transformed by the Internet, wireless telephone, access to powerful yet inexpensive computing technology, cable and satellite television, and other elements of the new…
The Global Public Policy Summit (GPPS) 2009 ended at Fairmont Southampton yesterday and was hailed as a great success by attendees who came to Bermuda from over 25 countries. GPPS 2009, a flagship event of the World Information Technology And Services Alliance (WITSA), focused on business technology as an enabler in world economies and featured…
4.0 How do we recover faster and build a foundation for long-term stability? Many economists say that the standard Keynesian macroeconomic prescription is to stimulate the economy by increasing borrowing, reducing interest rates, lowering taxes and raising spending on public works such as infrastructure. These measures are exactly what the bailout plan and stimulus packages…
Presentation at IT Public Private Forum Kano by Dr Jimson Olufuye, President, Information Technology (Industry) Association of Nigeria (ITAN) on 29.09.09 Introduction There is no doubt that transformed leadership is what matters most in the quest for national development in the contemporary world of today. There is no magic to it. Leadership requires deft and…
There is an instinct in man that propels change. The change can either be positive or negative. However, there is no one that wants to be a loser; rather everyone wants to be a winner. Therefore, the inherent virtue of man is for a positive change for the better and this is expected to result…