Osita Ibekwe

Assessing Nigeria’s Readiness for Government 2.0: NITDA’s role

Osita Ibekwe — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 22:10:32 +0000

“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 [...]

President Yar’Adua’s 7 Point Agenda - Lest We Forget

Osita Ibekwe — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 21:34:29 +0000

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 [...]

Nigeria: food crisis, crude oil and biofuels

Osita Ibekwe — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:15:53 +0000

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; [...]

Funding Nigerian Universities

Osita Ibekwe — Wed, 28 May 2008 15:18:17 +0000

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 [...]

Just Three Stories - Steve Jobs

Osita Ibekwe — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 01:26:13 +0000

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 [...]

It Is All About YOU!

Osita Ibekwe — Mon, 25 Feb 2008 17:17:23 +0000

Are YOU still dreaming? Do YOU want to remain YOU? YOU can still be any of the people around YOU today. So what do YOU want to do about YOU? It is all about YOU, YOU know!!! Maybe YOU do not know WHY it is about YOU. ‘A picture speaks more than words’ … See the picture and know [...]

‘IT’ Can Be Good Or ‘IT’ Can Be Bad

Osita Ibekwe — Sat, 23 Feb 2008 19:11:28 +0000

‘IT’ Can Be Good Or ‘IT’ Can Be Bad - It’s All Up To You! Contributed by: Theresa Twogood What is ‘IT’ that once experienced leads to more of the same ‘IT’? What is ‘IT’ if bad that feeds off of and gobbles up every good and simple pleasure known to man; but when good, [...]

Harvard’s Most Successful Dropout

Osita Ibekwe — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 22:16:06 +0000

Bill Gates Completes his college degree at Harvard Last year Bill Gates went back to Harvard to ‘complete his degree’. I thought I should reproduce the entire text of his speech at Harvard here. It makes a good read and gives an insight into the man that contributed immensely to the technology that have made it [...]

Can NITDA Catch them Young?

Osita Ibekwe — Mon, 18 Feb 2008 13:32:53 +0000

Since its establishment and subsequent mandate to co-ordinate and implement the Nigerian National Policy on Information Technology (IT) ’USE IT’ almost seven (7) years ago, the NITDA is still trying to catch them young. This policy is also the precursor to eGovernment in Nigeria I am afraid the young has grown already and it is a case of ‘catching [...]

How to Think

Osita Ibekwe — Sat, 16 Feb 2008 02:05:33 +0000

Courtesy: Anatoliy Koychev My thinking has always been provoked by means of counteraction to my attempts to become a part of the system, society and world. When the situations began pouring out in order to tumble down all my plans and dreams, then my ordinary question arose – why things did not happen the way I [...]