Information & Communication Technology Arena

Since President GoodLuck Jonathan followed the footsteps of Barack Obama, in declaring his intentions for the presidency via facebook, other politicians in the country have since taken to facebook as a veritable tool for campaign. To many ict analysts this is a good omen.
A visit to the social network site will reveal that Lagos State Governor, MR Babatunde Fashola, former Vice president Atiku Abubakar, Governor Emmanuel Uduaghan of Delta State, Mallam Nuhu Ribadu and host of other have made the site their campaign machinery.
This development is no doubt a testimony to the adoption of ICT by the political class which was hitherto docile.
In a bid to ensure that plans for the 2011 election go well, the Independent National Electoral Commission INEC has since concluded plan with the intended procurement of Direct Data Capturing Machine (DDC) which according to experts in the ICT industry is to enable INEC to conduct an election that deploys encryption, to enable voters register and cast their votes electronically.
INEC’s decision to go digital in the forth coming election has continued to elicit reactions among local content providers as it was alleged that INEC had pointed out that the local content providers don’t have the required technological know-how to provide the hardware and software for the over 150,000 DDC machines needed for the elections.
However, IT experts in the country and other professional bodies have posited that the country may pay a great price down the line if the nation’s data base is left in the hands of foreign agent.
Speaking with Cyber Africa, the chairman Lagos State Chapter of the Nigeria Computer Society, MR Rogba Adeoye pointed out that indigenous ICT firms are capable of handling the project and they should be given chunk of the job. He added that lack of involvement of professionals in the past accounted for the failure recorded in the previous dealings with indigenous companies.
In a similar vein Nigerians have continued to express their reservations over the award of the contract to foreign companies, describing it as a waste of fund when there are a number of Nigerian companies that have the capacities to deliver same result.
With these mix reactions, only time shall tell if INEC’s decision to award the contract to foreign firm is justifiable.

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