Inside NITDA’s 2011 e-Nigeria Conference

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The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is an organization with main focus on fostering the development and growth of IT in Nigeria. NITDA is again organizing another epoch-making event called "2011 e-Nigeria Conference".

E-Nigeria Conference is NITDA's Annual flagship awareness campaign aims at bringing various stakeholders together to marshal and brainstorm on IT development for the country.

The objectives of the conference includes but not limited to examine and proffer appropriate strategies that would enhance Nigerian content in IT products and services; develop requisite framework for empowering indigenous IT entrepreneurs in order to contribute Nigeria's GDP; develop framework for providing critical employment through outsourcing and other digital opportunity windows; examine challenges/factors militating against IT local content development in the country.

Others are to develop strategies for leveraging on technology transfer and Nigerians in Diaspora for developing the IT industry in the country and also to showcase "Made in Nigeria" IT products and services among others.

The year's Conference is scheduled to hold at Umaru Musa Yar'adua Centre, Memorial Drive, Central Business District,  Abuja, Nigeria from 6th – 8th September, 2011.

The Director General of NITDA, Prof. Cleopas Angaye, while inaugurating the Committee at the Agency's Headquarter tasked the members to contribute their wealth of experiences to ensure that this year's edition is a success.

He said machinery has been put in place to invite people from various works of life and in Diaspora to participate in this year's edition. Adding that, he will not hesitate to increase the membership of the Committee for the Conference to be successful beyond the previous editions.

"There is also a great need to examine the extent of Nigerian (local) content in IT Development and Deployment with the aim of developing Strategies that can enhance Nigerian content in the cyberspace", he said.

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