Report of the Nigeria Education Trust Fund ICT Capacity Building Programme
| Pages | 18-21 |
| Published date | 01 December 2004 |
| DOI | https://doi.org/10.1108/07419050410577569 |
| Date | 01 December 2004 |
| Author | Benson Oghenevwogaga Adogbeji |
| Subject Matter | Library & information science |
Report of the Nigeria Education Trust Fund ICT
Capacity Building Programme
Benson Oghenevwogaga Adogbeji
18 LIBRARY HITECH NEWS Number 10 2004, pp. 18-21, #Emerald Group Publishing Limited, 0741-9058, DOI 10.1108/07419050410577569
Introduction
The Education Trust Fund has been
beneficial to a lot of institutions in
many ways. As all beneficiary
institutions and stakeholders of the
Nigerian education system might have
observed, information technology (IT)
is dear to the heart of the ETF Board of
Trustees and occupies a premier
position in her scheme of things. This is
inevitable considering the place of IT in
communication and has advised ETF
intervention so far which includes:
.computer laboratories and con-
struction of equipment;
.IT laboratories in college of med-
icine;
.Centres of Excellence on such are in
College of Education, Agbor; and
.digital net laboratories of the
school net institution project in
secondary schools in all the geo-
political zones and the Federal
Capital Territory (Nwakamma-
Okoro, 2004).
The ETF training programme started
in 2002 and the first workshop aimed at
capacity building for the subsistence of
the IT technology infrastructure project
in tertiary institutions was held at the
University of Benin and followed up by
a second training session at the
University of Calabar in 2003. The third
training just concluded at the College of
Education, Agbor (Table I).
From the chart above a total of 22
staff of four institutions were involved
in the ETF ICT capacity training
programme.
Names of study (training) materials
The ETF ICT capacity training
programme was divided into nine
segments. The programme covers such
areas as (Table II):
.project management and business
skills;
.generic soft skills;
.business skills financial;
.security and system administration;
.information and communication
technology;
.help desk and support;
.business skills; and
.tech, web development, network-
ing.
The first course that took place in the
training was the project management
and business skills. It center on project
management.
The second course in the training
programme was that on generic soft
skills. It is divided into three modules:
(1) Security software for your purpose.
(2) Selecting competence vendor.
(3) Customer management relation.
The current operation may be
manual or automated IT. In this first
module some questions were raised,
which an organization venturing into
automation must answer:
.What problem the individual or
organization intends to secure in
the course of times automation.
.What is this software going to help
in securing the problem at hand.
.What changes the operation (the
current) system expects in the
trend of growth of the organiza-
tion.
.Manpower building or training
needs to be considered. How
adequate is the current manpower
or is there need to train and retrain
or engage another set of manpower
to meet up with the challenges
ahead in the intend new system.
.How much will it cost to meet with
customized requirements.
.Is the software vendor able or
capable to complete the automa-
tion process.
.What level of support is the
supplier or vendor of the software
is reading to give.
.Another important question is that,
is the software develops locally or
is it foreign software. If it is
foreign software, does the vendor
have local support.
.Are there reference points for such
software.
.What is the cost of the software.
.Is the implementation possible.
.What do is cost for the implemen-
tation and how long will it take.
.The organization budget should be
able to speak for the purchase.
.How adequate is the documenta-
tion of the software.
.How adequate the hardware and
the platform (operating system) on
which the software will run and
finally, civil be software accom-
modate the organization plan.
The points above are very important
as migration or frequent changes of
software are traced to some of the listed
points that were not considered in the
time of selection, purchase and
implementation of any new system.
The second module of this segment
of training is the competence of the
vendor. For an organization to be able
to select the appropriate hardware/
software for their organization the
selector must adopt the following:
.Establish specific needs and selec-
tion criteria.
.Match offers in the market with
vendor criteria.
.Evaluate vendor viability: This
may entail vision and capability.
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