Cloud Computing, Government Cloud [G-Cloud] beckons: Which Way NIGERIA

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For beginners, the United Kingdom’s released official document’ Government Cloud Strategy’  of March 2011 recognizes that the US National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) definition of cloud computing is the most widely adopted one, and has been adopted for G-Cloud; it states that: “Cloud computing is a model for enabling convenient, on-demand network access [...]

Approved Standards for School Buses in Nigeria – Stakeholders Workshop

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Worried by the incessant and avoidable accidents involving buses conveying pupils and students to and from school; and in order to achieve high safety standards of vehicles and minimal risks of commuting students and pupils, the Federal Road Safety Corps [FRSC] in collaboration with Standards Organisation of Nigeria [SON] has developed standards for school buses [...]

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

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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

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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 [...]

Nigeria: food crisis, crude oil and biofuels

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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 [...]