WELCOME ADDRESS BY CHRIS UWAJE (FNCS) PRESIDENT, INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE PRACTITIONERS OF NIGERIA (ISPON) ON THE OCCASION OF THE PRESIDENT DINNER 2014. VENUE: SHERATON HOTEL & TOWERS, IKEJA, LAGOS. FEB. 28, 2014 Theme: “Software: As Sustainable Intellectual Property for the Development of Nigeria” FOCUS: Software Nigeria: Innovate or Perish? It is my pleasure to welcome you all to our President…
By Chris Uwaje After Boko Haram, what next? That translates to ‘Tomorrow is pregnant and we don’t know what it will bring forth’. But fact is, today, Boko Haram is here and will come and go and life goes on , Jama’atu Ahlis Sunna Lidda’awati Wal-Jihad, better known by its Hausa name…
By Chris Uwaje Yesterday, we were told that it will take us 2,000 years to locally refine crude oil into petroleum and develop a Bomb – but we did that within few months during the Nigerian civil war and came out with “Ogbinigwe” a bomb with much dynamism and superiority than other inventions! Lessons…
If I told you that Nigeria currently needs about 20 million personal computers to compete with the rest of the world, you will say haba! What about if I tell you that there are about 14millions of students of school age (UBE- Universal Basic Education) that are currently out of school or that there…
National Software Conference and Competition 2012 Theme: “The Cloud and the Future of Software Nigeria. Date: 28-30 October 2012 Venue: Tinapa, calabar,Nigeria Tinapa Knowledge City 2012 – Software Nigeria at the World Stage: Nigerian IT Professionals and youths have in the past decades recognized the potentials of software as a dynamic tool to change…
SOFTWARE NIGERIA & LOCAL CONTENT ACT 2010 Suppressed Development and Under-development of Indigenous Software: The Nigerian Software Lion has roared in an effort to occupy the International software space – this has come to pass. Engr. Chijioke Simeon Agu, a Fellow of the Nigeria Computer society and Past President of the Institute of Software Practitioners…
Wake-Up, Wake-Up, Wake-Up! The Book of Isaiah and Revelation have said enough on apathy and docility, and there may be nothing more to say. But how long will Nigeria harbor and ignorantly elude the dreaded software catastrophe that has stated and continues to hunt all nations of the world? At last, one of the most…
Now with the Global meltdown, the Nigerian knowledge workers are in want. And stories are circulating in the Valley of immigrants abandoning their cars and homes to move back in with their parents abroad. But beyond the outflow of techies, Intel, Microsoft, and others have begun worrying publicly about a much broader problem: overall U.S….
Bring them Home – Nigerian Knowledge Workers (NKW) – Worldwide! The Nigerian dream, vision, mission and Enterprise Agenda does not need 160 million people to realise and deliver the mission critical assignment of 21st Century development. No. We only need a few, three million (3 million) smart hot-heads and thinking & creative mindset to take…
The time was 10.29am,on that day in September 1996.The venue was Broadway Computers Limited,Surulere and the Mission Critical Subject was Windows 95 softpack with its Embedded Virtual Basic Program. The encounter that led to the formation of Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria(ISPON) occurred in the month of September 1996,and the two professionals in this…
The central message of the national fuel subsidy removal and related economic crisis is: “The Industrial Era has ended and the Information Society Era has commenced”. All these noise about oil and gas, oil and gas – yes, removing the subsidy has created hardships, but focusing on this and identifying or calling it our central…
Welcome address delivered by Chris Uwaje(FNCS) at the National Software Conference and Competition organised by Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria(ISPON)at Tinapa,Calabar,Cross River State. It gives me a great pleasure to welcome you all-and indeed a special honor to welcome our distinguished guests,guests of honor,members of the NITDA Board,Our keynote speakers,captains of the IT Profession…
Software is undoubtedly the backbone to 21st century national security. The crux of this paper is based on the conceptual principle that with regards to information systems and security, “we cannot manage what we cannot measure”. Today, the quantum challenges, needs and response aspirations for our national security cannot be effectively determined, scaled, managed and/or…
Welcome to the digital universe! Welcome to the world of Computer Life-Code! If Computer Code is life, can it be said that Nigeria is a Codeless Nation? The gravity, complexly and implication of the above configured question cannot be over emphasized but intricately challenging. Indeed, it is an albatross to nation building and development; based…
EXAMINATION, EVALUATION AND ANALYSIS OF THE BOOK: TITLE:“TECHNOLOGY MADE SIMPLE FOR THE TECHNICAL RECRUITER” AUTHOR:OBI OGBANUFE (Engr.) OPENING STATEMENT In my view, “Technology Made Simple For The Technical Recruiter” is a Professional wake-up-call to the entire workforce spectrum of the emerging economies in the developing countries of the world in general and those in Nigeria…
INTRODUCTION TO NATIONAL SOFTWARE ROUND TABLE It gives me and the National Executive Council of ISPON a great pleasure and indeed a special honour to welcome the distinguished captains of the IT Industry who are here today to champion and share knowledge at this Software Roundtable. ISPON is happy to host you at this critical…
How will/should Software impact on our national development and security – now and in the future? Are we aware of the monumental risk in the procurement, application and use of Software outside the Indigenous control? How prepared are we to respond to a major Software-related Disaster in our emerging Digital economy? There are currently more…
Broadband and Broadband Divide (BBD) is here! Download, Download, Download – When will Nigeria start to upload creative digital content into the global IT Knowledge Space? The first equation for today’s knowledge-sharing lesson is: “Broadband without accelerated indigenous software engine, applications and local content equals = 21st Century Digital Slavery”. Nations that fail to develop…
Today, Institutions of all kinds – especially the Fortune Five Hundred Multi-Nationals, Financial Institutions, Mega Business outfits, Government entities, Electoral Processes and e-Voting, e-Government Operations, Banking and Finance, Sports complex Stadiums, Airports, Hospitality and Entertainment Centres, Shopping Malls, Organised Sports and leisure facilities, Mass Transport facilities and Train Stations, such as Hospital, Court Rooms, Server…
A PAPER PRESENTED BY THE PRESIDENT INSTITUTE OF SOFTWARE PRACTIONERS OF NIGERIA(ISPON),CHRIS UWAJE(FNCS) AT THE MAIDEN EDITION OF THE NIGERIA INTERNETWORLD CONFERENCE AND EXIBITION ON THE 20TH OF JULY,2010,HOLDING AT AFE BABALOLA HALL,UNILAG,LAGOS. INTRODUCTION There is no meaningful and constructive Business facet that can thrive in an atmosphere of insecurity and absence of…
The Nigeria Software Challenge-Part 1 Addressing the “Grand Challenge” with a “Grand Strategy” Why We Need A National Software Strategy/Policy Today, Software is recognized as the “critical national infrastructure” (CNI) within the global critical infrastructure (GCI). It is therefore the new centre of gravity of human life and global economy. Conventional wisdom and new…
TECHNICAL, LEGAL, AND OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES We have entered the Information Age, where information technologies have been integrated into virtually every aspect of business and society. This integration is posing new challenges for all of us in law enforcement. Today, there are critical challenges, seeing computers being used for criminal behavior in three major ways. …
2.2 CATEGORIES OF CYBER THREATS The following are some of the categories of cyber threats that we confront today include, but not limited to: Insiders, Hackers (or “crackers”), “Hacktivism.” Or Political Hacking, Criminal Groups, The Phonemasters’, Internet Fraud, Foreign intelligence services. Information Warfare, Virus Writers, Internet Fraud, Identity Theft, Child Pornography, Terrorists Etc.
1.2 The New Creative Class The New creative class is like the Managerial Class of the 1950s, they are the norm-setting class of the present era – applying and using technology. The growth of the Internet’s now most-infamous component, the World Wide Web, has been even more spectacular. With more than 700 million…
In 1982 and 1983, the first desktop computers began to appear, many were equipped with operating system called Berkeley UNIX which includes Network Software – which allows relatively easy connection to the Internet. The personal computer revolution continued through the eighties, making access to computer…
Prelude: As I conclude this series on “It’s Time to Listen to Emeagwali and one million Nigerians under “Part four” of this write-up, I wish to thank all those who have read and followed this presentation on issues of knowledge, technology and brain drain; and the need to refocus our development national mindset to positive…
NIGERIA YOUR TREASURE: Today, if man or history challenges us to produce our treasure house (our legacy?) what will it be? The ‘Accumulated Hydrocarbons, the ‘Rain Forest’ or ‘Human Resources’? None of the above! Truth is, we are yet to consciously recognize, appreciate, collect document and preserve nationalknowledge – which is and remains the greatest…
The Brain Drain Challenge! First, there is a fundamental need to refocus the nation’s information mindset from the current standard of “WHO YOU KNOW” to “WHAT YOU KNOW!” In order words, it’s time to start to pay homage to ‘knowledge’ (technology) than to (individual) Wealth – Dr. Pius Okigbo’s wisdom on building a knowledge-based society…
Time might be perceived, defined and configured as being relative. But, ironically the law of relatively is some kind of wisdom that spurs the mind and commands us to search the universe for better solution. Such a phenomena challenges the thought process and requires in-dept observation – this critical mass that makes us to listen…