IT Popularization and Awareness
Policy Statement
A comprehensive promotion and awareness campaign shall be undertaken in order to create an information society with cutting edge technologies in which every citizen is empowered to contribute positively to national development and wealth creation.
Objectives
To promote IT diffusion, utilization and applications within and across sectors.
To promote the use of IT by the heads of the three tiers of government; Ministers and all other key officers who can influence public opinion.
To encourage the performing arts (home video, artists, musicians etc) and other similar media sources to integrate IT popularisation into their programmes.
To use the electronic and print media extensively for the popularisation of IT.
To encourage the development of simple IT tools designed for local language interactions.
To draw on the intrinsic ability of women to propagate positive values within the society at large as an instrument for IT diffusion and promotion.
Strategies
Deploying Mobile Internet Units (MIU) with varying multimedia aids to tour rural areas in order to educate the populace on IT features and benefits in addition to the community telecentres.
Encourage IT skills acquisition for all officers at all tiers of government within 24 months of this policy going in to effect.
Establishing interactive websites for all key government offices within 12 months as information centres for the populace.
Organizing workshops to demonstrate the features and benefits of IT for performing artists through the Ministry of Youth, Sports and Culture.
Collaborating with the Ministry of Women Affairs to organize workshops and training in IT skills for women and other special groups.
Collaborating with the Ministry of Information as well as it's agencies such National Broadcasting Commission, NTA, the Federal Radio Corporation of Nigeria and others at the state level to popularise IT through the slogan 'Use Information Technology' (USE IT) via television and radio
