Assessing Nigeria’s Readiness for Government 2.0: NITDA’s role
“Transforming governments is not easy. While technology alone cannot transform governments, governments today cannot transform without technology. In the fast paced world of technology, new approaches constantly extend the boundaries of what is possible. The pace of change is evidenced by the fact that terms like SOA, WOA, community sourcing, cloud computing, software-as-a-service, and Web 2.0 that seem almost common place today, were not in the lexicon only a few years ago. It would be good to step back and take a dispassionate view of where the practice of government is heading.” … World Bank
Preambles:
Transformational government is taking root in the heart of government’s relationship with its citizens and businesses alike as well as within government. Governments are realising that in today’s information based environment; there is an overwhelming need for transformation in its processes and procedures toward rendering quality, efficient and cost effective services to its clients wherever they are regardless of time and space. Read more »
President Yar’Adua’s 7 Point Agenda - Lest We Forget
THE 7 POINT AGENDA OF THE YAR’ADUA ADMINISTRATION
1. Energy: We need to solve the problem of power and energy – National Council on Energy to drive the energy policy and advice on power, energy and gas… energy emergency to be declared.
2. Security: Treating security as a critical Infrastructure.
3. Wealth Creation: 70% of all revenue comes from oil; need to keep this focused and extended to other areas.
4. Education: Need to address the various problems in the education sector.
5. Land Reform: To provide proper ownership and give a chance to take the land to capital market.
6. Mass Transit: To develop capacity for mass movement of goods and people.
7. Niger Delta: To implement the master plan already developed. Read more »
Nigeria: food crisis, crude oil and biofuels
You cannot but agree with me that these three things are amongst the biggest issues on most seminars, conferences, discuss and activities in around governments, agencies and international organisations in recent times.
Nigeria as a country is having its own share of the attention in many facets.
Food Crisis:
Nigeria no doubts have got too many mouths to feed; and have been making efforts to satiate the mouths, both those that are genuinely hungry and the gluttons amongst us.
The government in Nigeria through the Minister of Agriculture came with the magic wand to inform us that ‘government in a bid to stem the impending food crisis was going to embark on massive importation of rice’ to the tune of some ridiculous amount. As usual, it was greeted with a lot of opposition and in its usual reversal mode; government reveresd itself. Read more »
Funding Nigerian Universities
The funding of Nigerian Universities is at its all time low, despite the purported efforts of successive governments, not much can be shown for the efforts. Therefore, there is an urgent need for stakeholders in the country’s education sector to align their different objectives to rescue the University system from total collapse.
An apsect of fundraising is captured below;
The big issues here therefore, are; what is different from the Nigerian case and that of the UK and other places (?) Are there no corporately responsible companies in Nigeria (?) Are we lacking of wealth benefactors and formal students OR Are the universities not blessed with them (?)These questions are begging for our answers for a start. What is your take?
Just Three Stories - Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs needs no introduction, he is the person behind the Apple Computers maker of mac and the i- (s) of this i-world; he is also the person that gave us Pixar, the great Animation Studios in Hollywood.
Steve strikes one as the average Joe with an average Joe story. He is like the rest of us in many aspects; but he swam against the currents and weathered the storms of life through in the midst failures, loss and the threat of death via cancer. Through it all he still stands victorious, I think you too, CAN!
I wish you will have all the time to read see this clip of Steves’ speech to a graduation class of 2005 at Stanford; Steve by the way did not graduate from college himself. He said “Today I want to tell you three stories from my life. That’s it. No big deal. Just three stories”. Here him;
The Clip: Read more »