Accenture, a leading global professional services company which provides broad range of services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations, has stated that the development of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is the solution to the country’s numerous problems. In its viewpoint, the mirage of socio-economic and political challenges facing the nation can be addressed using ICT.
This belief was what led the Accenture team in 2008 to forge an alliance with the Nigerian Computer Science Society (NCS) Ogun State Chapter, a partnership that has seen the mentoring and knowledge exchange between then and the students for the past 8years; and has led to the partnership with the national conference of National Association of Computer Science Students’ (Nacoss).
Priority from Government
At the recently concluded 17th national conference of Nacoss at the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, Mr. Niyi Yusuf, country manager, Accenture, reiterated the need of the government to give priority to the development of the ICT sector.
In his paper entitled:”The Role of the Youths in Sustainable Growth of the National Development through Information Technology”, he stressed the need for synergy between government and corporate bodies in building capacity and providing opportunity for the youth in ICT.
He added that the sector has the potential to create wealth and jobs as well as tackle security challenges plaguing Nigeria. According to Yusuf, lots of challenges being faced in Nigeria today have been encountered by most advanced countries and were addressed using IT.
He said such problems as poor economic outlook; inequality, poverty, rapid urban expansion, insecurity, corruption and others were issues that little software could tackle.
Synergy
Yusuf believes that Nigerians have the potentials to solve her problems using ICT, noting that what the country requires is proper synergy between government and other bodies. “Government should move beyond the design of dormant governments’ web sites and go into digital e-governance through partnership, research with the right bodies. Through digital e-governance, government can interface with the public and provide services that somehow look very difficult,” he said.
He explained that e-governance drives accountability, transparency, equitability, responsive, consensus orientated, rule of law, and participatory which according to him are major characteristics of good governance.
Yusuf, who chronicled the notable inventions that have impacted positively on the world added, “Lots of these inventions were made by young people using technology. We are convinced that if young people outside Nigeria could create jobs and wealth using ICT, Nigerian youths if supported could equally make positive marks,” he said.
Yusuf, who chronicled the notable inventions that have impacted positively on the world added, “Lots of these inventions were made by young people using technology. We are convinced that if young people outside Nigeria could create jobs and wealth using ICT, Nigerian youths if supported could equally make positive marks,” he said.
Yusuf said because of this believe, Accenture Nigeria supported the Tony Elumelu Foundation and other groups in building the capacity of youths in ICT, noting that Nigeria has bright future if the youths are fully exposed to ICT.
Accenture has also reward the most outstanding students in each ICT unit of the institutions with laptops, tablets and other IT gadgets/devices to make them work more efficiently, while some participants have enjoyed the investment of time and knowledge via the mentorship scheme to improve on their software development skills and ability to translate them into applications that can be sold for value.
Accenture has also reward the most outstanding students in each ICT unit of the institutions with laptops, tablets and other IT gadgets/devices to make them work more efficiently, while some participants have enjoyed the investment of time and knowledge via the mentorship scheme to improve on their software development skills and ability to translate them into applications that can be sold for value.
Creativity
Among the inventions created by the students include ‘My Supervisor & I,’ a project management system that allows student and supervisor relationship; ‘BizExpert, an all-in-one business manager for local business organisation; ‘Near Me’, a mobile application that makes life easier and more comfortable by giving an edge in finding the closest and necessary places around with detailed information for the user and ‘Slangz’, which promotes the use of pidgin language (Wazobia) a common informal way of communicating amongst Nigerians.
Others are Traffic Offence, a web and mobile database programme that makes it possible for traffic officers to record traffic offences committed by road users with the help of the mobile app, and security surveillance software.
Also developed in the field of Agriculture was Agrosol, a platform designed to bring Nigerian farmers together and provide tips on how to manage their farms, lessons on seasons of planting and how, latest news, machinery training with video simulation, manages database for farmers (as long they register); and an information portal dubbed www.onecrier.com, which registers online and chooses users’ area of interest.
Also developed in the field of Agriculture was Agrosol, a platform designed to bring Nigerian farmers together and provide tips on how to manage their farms, lessons on seasons of planting and how, latest news, machinery training with video simulation, manages database for farmers (as long they register); and an information portal dubbed www.onecrier.com, which registers online and chooses users’ area of interest.
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