- IT professionals across government – Federal, State and Local Governments – “Accelerating Economic Recovery and Growth” of Nigeria’s Governments
IT professionals in Government – Federal, State and Local Governments in Nigeria under the auspices of the Nigeria Information Technology Professionals in Civil and Public Service (NITPCS); an interest professional group of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) has strategically positioned itself as the critical technology enabler to the current economic recovery and growth agenda of President Muhammadu Buhari (GCFR), Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Nigeria led government.
This new bold move the NITPCS National President, Raphael Omosola, said in a report by TechEconomy.ng, is predicated on the fact that as civil and public servants and more importantly as IT professionals we are the fulcrum in which the successful implementation of policies and programmes of all strata of governments in Nigeria rest upon: whether its within government; government to business and to its citizens or otherwise.
NITPCS whose Vision is: Promote professionalism, provide conducive environment for continuous career development and progression; protection of member’s interest and condition of their practice and its Mission: To enable the government to drive the Information Technology (IT) component of IT polices and professionalize “IT” practice in Nigerian Civil/Public services.
As part of the process of that change, NITPCS will be hosting Nigeria’s largest and most prestigious public sector ICT Summit/Expo in Abuja at the Crystal Palace Hotel, Area 11, Abuja, FCT; December 5th – 7th, 2018.
The summit/expo delegates will come primarily from Federal MDAs, State MDAs and Local governments as well as the Legislature and Judiciary. We are having premium industry exhibitors for this event.
The event includes plenary session, thought leadership presentations, panel discussion, capacity building and industry based seminars with speakers from both the public and private sector.
The event is fully supported by Federal Ministry of Communications, Nigeria Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Galaxy Backbone Plc (GBB), Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), Nigeria Communications Satellite Ltd (NIGCOMSAT), Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) and Computer Professional Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN).
The three-day Technology in Government Summit/Expo 2018 will bring together senior public sector leaders, Policy makers, IT professionals, Experts and stakeholders to learn, connect and solve, a platform that shall support and deepen the ongoing ICT modernization within the public sector.
Governments are increasingly becoming smart, efficient and citizen facing with the adoption of appropriate technologies to drive governance and create the requisite enabling environment for national change and transformation.
The theme of the summit/expo is “Accelerating National Economic Recovery and Growth (ERGP), the Role of Information Technology” while the plenary sub themes for Thursday 6th December, focuses on things that matter most to government:
- Security and Protection of Key National Information Infrastructures
- Enabling the strategic use of ICT to deliver on policy and effective governance
- Engaging openly to build and leverage knowledge and foster collaboration: Executive Orders
- Government Spending: doing more with less – Shared Services
This year’s Summit offers a 4 track IT technical training, and a Master Class as follows:
- CIO Master Class and Project Management for IT Leaders
- Understanding and Implementing IT Service Management (ITSM)
- Cyber Security and Digital Assets Protection – Discovery Series (Hands On)
- Government Portal/Website and Enterprise Collaboration Design, Implementation and Support
- Unified Communications Infrastructure Design and Implementation
NITPCS has begun to collaborate with government entities particularly NITDA whose mandate revolves around technology services in the public sector and also will be partnering with private sector technology providers to support government in this direction.
NITPCS as an umbrella body of government IT professionals is therefore fully geared up to support government at all levels to achieve its mandate to Nigerian citizens by ensuring that through the adoption of appropriate technologies governments will begin to realise the following:
- enhanced efficiency and timeliness
- cost reduction and transparency in governance
- citizen focused service delivery
- government to business efficiency.
Because of the uniqueness of this event and the critical role IT plays globally today, particularly in governments; expected to grace the summit are Governors, Ministers and Heads of MDA’s across Nigeria.
“Having said that, I on behalf of NITPCS wish to invite the general public to the summit /expo. We are looking forward to welcoming and receiving top government functionaries, IT professionals, Government and Industry Exhibitors to the summit/expo. Summit website: www.techingovt.org.ng”, the President said.