FG Set To Enforce Use Of Made-In-Nigeria IT Products
http://www.leadership.ng/nga/articles/23995/2012/05/08/fg_set_enforce_use_madeinnigeria_it_products.html

The Federal Government through the National Information Technology Development Agency (Nitda), a parastatal of the Ministry of Communication Technology is set to enforce the use of Made-in-Nigeria IT products by government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs).

Mr. Inye Kemabonta, Director, Standards and Regulation, Nitda said the agency was working through the National Technical Committee (NTC) on IT Standards to ensure that made-in-Nigeria IT products meet global standards and that Nigerians would have no more excuse not to patronise made-in Nigeria products.

The committee would also consolidate the Nitda campaign for Nigerians to buy made-in-Nigeria products in IT and provide the enabling framework for the development of the indigenous IT sector. The NTC was established by Nitda as a specialised organ for IT standards development in the country. The Minister for Communication Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson inaugurated the committee in November last year.

To this end, Nitda would next week in Lagos hold an IT stakeholder workshop for the purpose of fine-tuning draft standards and guidelines for made- in- Nigeria IT hardware products. The Director-General of Nitda, Prof Cleopas Angaye, is expected to use the occasion of the workshop to remind the MDAs that the Federal Government mandatory policy which requires the public sector to procure low-end Nigerian IT products is still in force.

Nitda 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. Recently, government announced a plan to establish a N1 billion Software Innovation Fund to fast-track the development of made-in-Nigeria software by the youths. The fund commenced with seed money from the government.

Angaye had during the final review of the draft policy on software development in November 2011 said Nigeria could earn about $6 billion from software if properly harnessed especially as the software industry is not a capital intensive sector, noting that ICT has been accepted globally as a major tool for sustainable socio-economic development, he said software was the engine for this powerful tool.

“It is however disheartening to observe that these investments have been mostly on imported software. A recent disclosure by the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) shows that Nigeria loses about $1 billion annually to software importation. Whereas Nigeria software industry is potentially a $6 billion industry and could surpass revenue from the oil industry,” Angaye said.

I like what I'm hearing. Keep it up guys.

bilms: FG Set To Enforce Use Of Made-In-Nigeria IT Products
http://www.leadership.ng/nga/articles/23995/2012/05/08/fg_set_enforce_use_madeinnigeria_it_products.html

“It is however disheartening to observe that these investments have been mostly on imported software. A recent disclosure by the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) shows that Nigeria loses about $1 billion annually to software importation. Whereas Nigeria software industry is potentially a $6 billion industry and could surpass revenue from the oil industry,” Angaye said.

i wonder when Nigeria will start producing BB porche,cars and others, Na only bomb Nigeria(bokoharam) can produce

How do you enforce this in an open market like we have in Nigeria?
We have companies who hire expatriated in spite of having an underutilised workforce?
How can this possibly work given penchant for all things foreign?
More pie in the sky than reality!

How do you enforce this in an open market like we have in Nigeria?
We have companies who hire expatriated in spite of having an underutilised workforce.
How can this possibly work given our penchant for all things foreign?
More pie in the sky than reality!

Bunch of ediots are at again. . . they should always leave by example.

FG to do this FG to do that

Just like when a baby is crying and the father says " Diola darling, do you want sugar-cane? oya stop crying i will buy sugar-cane for you later ok?"

Na their way.

What type of products?
Switches
Routers
Cables
Servers, Mainframe , desktop laptop?

If they can, that will be good

bilms: FG Set To Enforce Use Of Made-In-Nigeria IT Products
http://www.leadership.ng/nga/articles/23995/2012/05/08/fg_set_enforce_use_madeinnigeria_it_products.html

The Federal Government through the National Information Technology Development Agency (Nitda), a parastatal of the Ministry of Communication Technology is set to enforce the use of Made-in-Nigeria IT products by government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs).

Mr. Inye Kemabonta, Director, Standards and Regulation, Nitda said the agency was working through the National Technical Committee (NTC) on IT Standards to ensure that made-in-Nigeria IT products meet global standards and that Nigerians would have no more excuse not to patronise made-in Nigeria products.

The committee would also consolidate the Nitda campaign for Nigerians to buy made-in-Nigeria products in IT and provide the enabling framework for the development of the indigenous IT sector. The NTC was established by Nitda as a specialised organ for IT standards development in the country. The Minister for Communication Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson inaugurated the committee in November last year.

To this end, Nitda would next week in Lagos hold an IT stakeholder workshop for the purpose of fine-tuning draft standards and guidelines for made- in- Nigeria IT hardware products. The Director-General of Nitda, Prof Cleopas Angaye, is expected to use the occasion of the workshop to remind the MDAs that the Federal Government mandatory policy which requires the public sector to procure low-end Nigerian IT products is still in force.

Nitda 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. Recently, government announced a plan to establish a N1 billion Software Innovation Fund to fast-track the development of made-in-Nigeria software by the youths. The fund commenced with seed money from the government.

Angaye had during the final review of the draft policy on software development in November 2011 said Nigeria could earn about $6 billion from software if properly harnessed especially as the software industry is not a capital intensive sector, noting that ICT has been accepted globally as a major tool for sustainable socio-economic development, he said software was the engine for this powerful tool.

“It is however disheartening to observe that these investments have been mostly on imported software. A recent disclosure by the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) shows that Nigeria loses about $1 billion annually to software importation. Whereas Nigeria software industry is potentially a $6 billion industry and could surpass revenue from the oil industry,” Angaye said.

I'm tired of this somuch talks and less action. Set to, wants to, is poised to, dreams of, fantasizes about..... And the beat goes on.
Wait! Why cant we boast of water and electricity? Because FG is Set to, wants to, is poised to, dreams of, fantasizes about...
JOnathan ACT!!!!! Ah!!!!

another cassava bread story

govt wil do this and that i hardly hear govt has done this.

Is that as a result of the inability on Nigerian I.T producers to compete?

[size=15pt]Really?[/size]

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i have known long time ago that this government can never get anything right.

What is with the IT products,when their office were furnished with imported products?

THE COWARD GOVERNMENT SHOULD ENFORCE MADE IN NIGERIA VEHICLE FOR ALL POLITICAL OFFICE HOLDERS,BE IT ELECTED POSITION OR SELECTED POSITIONS IF THEY GET SENSE.

In the real sense there nothing like made in Nigeria IT product, especially in hardware equipments. What most of our so-called indegenous IT product manufacturers do is assemble imported units that are complex enough and ieee standard compliant enuf to be called an IT prodvct. I have never heard of any part of Nigeria where they manufacture network card, tv card or a compact disc lense. While these IT product are manufactured accross hundreds of factories and employs thousands of foriegners, it takes few hands to assemble these product in Nigeria.
I am totally agains this policy.

There are 3 critical things that must happen otherwise this will simply be another pipe-dream that the her excellency the Minister will chalk-up on her CV as something she was involved in and cost billions of Naira to implement.

1: Technology/Knowledge Transfer : How many Nigerian IT companies are pushing their own technology rather than Microsoft's or Oracle or Laserfiche or SAGE etc. until Nigerians study the intricacies and sophistication of software/hardware development and successfully transfer the knowledge into building standards-driven solutions, Made-in-Nigeria will just be like Made in Aba compared to Made in Italy. very few will stake their money on Made-in-Nigeria technology
2: Stronger/Better/Relevant Education Policies : What was Japan's most visible policies after the 2nd World-war. Education and Technology, Japs in droves were sponsored by the government to higher institutions across the globe to improve their Knowledge Capital - guess what, they may be an Island but are one of the World's Giants in Technology
3: An Economy that supports local industry/competition : while the FG boasts of Billions of Naira/Dollars available for SMEs and Agriculture, they continually spend on technology such as 3 Satellites in space $$$$$ (one went bad) and other technology transfer centers that till date has not impacted in measurable terms on the Nigerian IT environment. Until such funds are released to worthy projects that make an enduring impact, we will continue to pass each year expending billions of Naira to Microsoft and Oracle (which 90% of Government Ministries use)

Best Regards

ayox2003:
I'm tired of this somuch talks and less action. Set to, wants to, is poised to, dreams of, fantasizes about..... And the beat goes on.
Wait! Why cant we boast of water and electricity? Because FG is Set to, wants to, is poised to, dreams of, fantasizes about...
JOnathan ACT!!!!! Ah!!!!

yes o,only electriciy and water and even road...the three most basic things in this our sorry life.they cant.

Did I read "FG Set To Enforce Use Of Made-in-Nigeria IT Products".

This is now getting worse and insane is this what they should be deliberating on when our universities are producing bunch of junkies are graduates. An average computer science student to start with cannot write a simple application with C or C++, Java is going too far, all they know is to listen to music and watch movies with a laptop.

I do not see where we are heading to other than doom, Our private sectors only pump money into reality shows like project fame and the rest while non have bring the knowledge of setting a a university challenge project on info tech.

Nigeria is really Insane and GEJ is absolutely more INSANE

What we need from these mugus are pretty simpu-gd road network, good policy framewrk and its proper implementation, electricty-and the rest will fall into place. Instead they keep promising us their mot.hers' heads..abeg Bleep dem all.

Well it good idea but obasanjo try dis durin his tenure Close boarder & stopped importin of goods at the end of the day doesn't work.

ayox2003:
I'm tired of this somuch talks and less action. Set to, wants to, is poised to, dreams of, fantasizes about..... And the beat goes on.
Wait! Why cant we boast of water and electricity? Because FG is Set to, wants to, is poised to, dreams of, fantasizes about...
JOnathan ACT!!!!! Ah!!!!

You couldn't have said it better, man.

chloride6: another cassava bread story

Had to quote this. LOL (Ok, not really).

The president drives in a convoy of imported cars when we have locally assembled cars like Peugeot, Volkswagen and Innoson. Low patronage is what killed the first two and is also bound to kill the last one if precautions arent taken. The senate and reps still use imported cars like BMWs, Toyotas and Hondas as official cars. This has to change.

The entire government officials need to start wearing only Nigerian Wax, Nextem, ABC wax and co to save our textile industry which is potentially worth over 10 billion Naira. Its high time we stop seeing the senate president and his group wearing imported Italian made textiles and english bowler hats on T.V. No more.....

No more imported shoes for the president either. In the north, they make local slippers and shoes. we must encourage these companies. Kpomo must be banned as this is raw material for our leather product industries... THe other day, Mrs Diezani was spotted carrying a 4 million Naira bag, that nonsense should stop. Only local bags from hence fort. Our local industries must grow.

No more imported rice for the FG. Ofada produces alot of rice that is under eaten by Nigerians who trade it in for Dangotes imported long grain rice. No more.

All the Ipads, Laptops and imported devices purchased by the legislatives, executives and all government officials are to be siezed and replaced with the following devices;

- Ipads to be replaced with the Nigerian made Vantium V1 device.

- Imported Laptops to be replaced with Ommatek and Zinox laptops.

No more fried rice at state functions as that is not a Nigerian dish. When we go abroad, they never serve garri at the white house. So from now on, only Nigerian dishes would be served at state functions.

The Nigerian security forces will also return those AK-47 rifles and all other imported arms including pistols and such and be replaced by the Nigerian made SAL-W assault rifle.

Infact, If it is made in Nigeri, the FG should not be found using a foriegn made alternative!!



Arrant nonsense. Encouraging undue monopoly as if na una dash me my money!!

Tru_lie: What we need from these mugus are pretty simpu-gd road network, good policy framewrk and its proper implementation, electricty-and the rest will fall into place. Instead they keep promising us their mot.hers' heads..abeg Bleep dem all.

Seconded......

This is a welcome devlopment.

bilms: FG Set To Enforce Use Of Made-In-Nigeria IT Products
http://www.leadership.ng/nga/articles/23995/2012/05/08/fg_set_enforce_use_madeinnigeria_it_products.html

The Federal Government through the National Information Technology Development Agency (Nitda), a parastatal of the Ministry of Communication Technology is set to enforce the use of Made-in-Nigeria IT products by government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs).

Mr. Inye Kemabonta, Director, Standards and Regulation, Nitda said the agency was working through the National Technical Committee (NTC) on IT Standards to ensure that made-in-Nigeria IT products meet global standards and that Nigerians would have no more excuse not to patronise made-in Nigeria products.

The committee would also consolidate the Nitda campaign for Nigerians to buy made-in-Nigeria products in IT and provide the enabling framework for the development of the indigenous IT sector. The NTC was established by Nitda as a specialised organ for IT standards development in the country. The Minister for Communication Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson inaugurated the committee in November last year.

To this end, Nitda would next week in Lagos hold an IT stakeholder workshop for the purpose of fine-tuning draft standards and guidelines for made- in- Nigeria IT hardware products. The Director-General of Nitda, Prof Cleopas Angaye, is expected to use the occasion of the workshop to remind the MDAs that the Federal Government mandatory policy which requires the public sector to procure low-end Nigerian IT products is still in force.

Nitda 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. Recently, government announced a plan to establish a N1 billion Software Innovation Fund to fast-track the development of made-in-Nigeria software by the youths. The fund commenced with seed money from the government.

Angaye had during the final review of the draft policy on software development in November 2011 said Nigeria could earn about $6 billion from software if properly harnessed especially as the software industry is not a capital intensive sector, noting that ICT has been accepted globally as a major tool for sustainable socio-economic development, he said software was the engine for this powerful tool.

“It is however disheartening to observe that these investments have been mostly on imported software. A recent disclosure by the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) shows that Nigeria loses about $1 billion annually to software importation. Whereas Nigeria software industry is potentially a $6 billion industry and could surpass revenue from the oil industry,” Angaye said.

Nothing would stop us from using them once they are standard.

All these fools we have in power still don't get it. Fix the darn electricity first, the roads second, and the education sector third. With those things in place, Nigerians will have an atmosphere that fosters development and creativity, which will lead to making world-class products at lower prices.

Princek12: All these fools we have in power still don't get it. Fix the darn electricity first, the roads second, and the education sector third. With those things in place, Nigerians will have an atmosphere that fosters development and creativity, which will lead to making world-class products at lower prices.

Please say it again, the power situation in Nigeria seems to be deteriorating as the days go by.

But seriously, how can you know you've made a good IT product if you don't have electricity to test it?
How can you make software, when there is no electricity to run your computer?

Why does the Nigerian government specialize in trying to run before it can even crawl?
Left to me, I would say every other government program should take a marginally lower priority compared to this power issue.

Only a bush villager sees no need for sorting out the electrical grid of one's country (afterall according to them, they've lived just fine using lanterns and well-water).
Sadly, the very same are the ones ruling the country now.

Any civilization that calls itself "modern", should not be struggling with electricity like that country.
But alas, All this talking and repeating gets naija nowhere. Naija Politicians don't have NL accounts...and are likely computer illiterates.