Can NITDA Catch them Young?
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 them if you can’ now. Whatever maybe the case NITDA will need to double its efforts in order to meet the objectives of the IT policy.
Should we then say that the effort below is commendable? Read more »
How to Think
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 wanted them to happen, the way I have already planed them. The doubt to the direction and going of my whole life emerged. There was no answer to this question but I had to know why. The first aim came up then – I had to know everything. I wondered if that was possible at all.
Encouraged by constant attempts of system agents to convince me that achieving my aims was impossible and that I am on a wrong way, I entered the endless wandering, searching for things, completely unknown at the present time. There was nobody to show me the right way, there was no help. Everything was wraped up in lies and absorbed in dense darkness. One person’s breakaway is not any problem for the system. Read more »
eGovernment - Nigeria’s Journey!
Government and public-sector managers worldwide have within the last decade come to the realisation that Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) is a viable tool that can help them achieve their aims; to deliver efficient and cost effective services to its citizenry, clients and partners. To this end governments in most developed and developing countries of the world are at different stages of adoption and implementation of their chosen eGovernment policies and initiatives in a bid to reform their public sector, and improve on its services deliveries.
The reality in most African countries is that they are not democractic and where there is democracy, it is still at infant stage with steep learning curves. It could be argued that a public sector is an extension of the kind of government that is in power. Hence in some democratic countries of the developed world, their public sector presents a vibrant and supportive ally in governance . Whether democratic or un-democratic, government is divided into levels for administrative convinences toward bringing government closer to the governed. Read more »
Thinking Government
What is It?
Whose Idea was It?
Who Is it for?
How much of it do we Need?
Who controls It?
Can we do without Government?
As much as I try to refrain from asking the obvious, the compulsive nature of thought and thinking makes it imperative for one to enquire.
Factly, not all enquiries uncover truth, neither do all questions get satisfactory answers; hence, the quest for truth and acceptable answers will continue.
As I search for answers to the above nagging questions on government, governance and the governed; I will indulge you to join me. If only we think.
Green or Grim
The way and manner the “green” debate is being handled by its proponents and opponents, in no time we will all be Grim rather than Green.
It is time to take a stand. What is you position on the great Green debate and all the attendant Clean and Green Initiatives here and there? Are you like me, keeping it within or are you rather an unconcerned tenant of planet earth and beyond?
Help Think Green today and Avoid tomorrow’s impending Grim.