NCS Woos Investors, Policy Makers to Nigerian Tech Space

Emma Okonji

The Nigerian Computer Society (NCS) the umbrella body of all Information Technology (IT) professionals in Nigeria has said it will use its international conference, slated to hold in Bauchi, to woo both local and international investors, including policy makers, to invest in the Nigerian tech space. 

With the theme: “Communications and e-Systems for Economic Stability (CeSES 2023),” the conference seeks to bring together Information Technology industry icons, decision-makers, CEOs, government, academia, and other experts of the industry within and outside the country to brainstorm on current national and global developmental issues. 

Speaking about the NCS conference during a media briefing in Lagos recently, the President of NCS, Prof. Adesina Sodiya, said the conference would provide a platform to showcase the massive investment Bauchi State has embarked upon in the area Information Technology, with a view to facilitating sustainable collaboration between Bauchi State and Nigeria Computer Society, as well as attracting investors, policy-makers to the state.

“With an average of 2000 yearly delegates, the international conference has become the largest gathering of IT professionals in Africa. Over the years, NCS has been championing and promoting IT development in Nigeria through the international conference, which features exhibitions of various IT products ranging from software to hardware that are of great benefit to both the government and the industry.”

Speaking about the benefits of this year’s conference to Bauchi State and Nigeria at large, Sodiya said: “We are seeing a fully automated state in the future, where e-governance, e-commerce, e-documents, e-approval, e-knowledge, e-payment, among others will be the order of the day, thereby eliminating corruption and making the State first among equals.”