NCS Unfolds Conference Agenda

The Nigerian Computer Society (NCS) is reaching out to other stakeholders to actualise its IT plans… EUNICE AYEGBOYIN

[EVENT POSTPONED DUE TO LABOUR STRIKE as IT Edge update went online]

The Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) is working with the
cybercrime committee to evolve new ways of curbing
online crimes, address cyber security and `419 scams.

The apex organisation for computer professionals and
IT companies made this disclosure in Lagos a media
meet outline its agenda its forthcoming 19th National
Conference and Annual General Meeting slated to hold
in Abuja from Tuesday 15th June, 2004.
 

The NCS said it was committed to ending the scourge of cybercrimes to help end the negative country
perception and minimise losses in e-commerce,
e-judiciary e-privacy occasioned by the increasing
rate of cyber crimes, particularly 419 scam.


The President of the NCS Dr Chris Nwannena told
reporters that the damage done by online 419 to the
image of the country and its socio-economic
development was frighteningly huge. The variant of
cybercrime known as advanced fee fraud otherwise
called 419 has come to be regarded purely as a
Nigerian phenomenon. A coalition of American
businessmen with a website to fight the 419 scourge
alleged on its site last year that American businesses
lost over $200 million to Nigerian 419ers between 2000
and 2002.

 

Pix: Nwannena an other NSC leaders unveil conference plans

The NCS four days national conference with the theme:
Indigenous Information Technology Capacity
Development: A Veritable source of National Income
(ICADEV) will hold at the Sheraton Hotel and Tower.
According to Nwannena, the conference is aiming at
exploring ways and means of expanding the economic
base of the country through earning income from IT in
general and software development in particular.

Nwannena said the objective of the conference was in
tandem with the focus of the Society on indigenous
software development. High points of the four-day
conference include the contributions of Nigeria IT
professionals to the national economy, IT capacity
development, software engineering, cyber crime, cyber
security and the 419 scam. Key resource persons
include presidents of ITAN, ISPON, ISPAN, NITPA and
NACOSS.

The conference is to be declared opened by the
Minister of Information and National Orientation
Chukwuemeka Chikelu. Other notables include Prof.
Iya Abubakar, chairman of Senate Committee on Science
and Technology; Dr I.A odeyemi, Prof. Uche Modum,
Prof. Bolaji Aluko and Ojinta –Oji Alala who is
slated to be Chairman of the Technical Sessions. This
same session would feature an expose on “WiMax: The
next broadband wireless revolution” by Anthony
Ikemefuna, a celebrated engineer and President of
Cellynk Communications Corporation, Silicon Valley,
US.

Also expected are Dorothy Gordon of Kofi Anan Centre
of Excellence, Ghana, Dr. Gabriel Obi, chairman of
CPN; Prof. Vesper Owei and Dr Edna Udobong, all
members of the Nigeria Information Technology
Professionals in Americans (NITPA).

Computer whiz-kid Rowland Uko, who is the current
holder of NACOSS best software developer would deliver
a paper titled “Indigenous Software model for
combating SCAM mails in Nigeria.”

A special programme has been set aside for Thursday
17th organised by NITPA in conjunction with the NCS to
help reverse the “Brain- drain syndrome into
Brain-gain” About 1000 people are expected to attend
the conference. They are expected from the IT
industry, banking, oil and gas, education and
manufacturing sectors.



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