By Chris Uwaje

Broadband is also classified as the opportunity, ability and capability to engage the historical momentum of global information system and content transformation processes.

It is also the challenge to effectively manage the attendant potential high risk embedded in the infinitive (?) digital life cycle! Currently, our nation is at the edge of a monumental risk to lose her entire being – character, identity, signature, art and culture and traditional life — as we swim along the torrential digital current, and waves, infested by Stuxnet worms of digital globalization — without at least a home grown swimming trunk or supporting infrastructure for disaster recovery.

The above danger is very clear from the graphic illustration of the statistical table of global broadband Internet user country below: Nigeria is NOT yet on the global Broadband map!

The Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, where I currently serve as President is deeply  concerned and worried at the state of indigenous software engineering, development and patronage in Nigeria. The sector is still in the wilderness – where it was thrown into by one-eyed anti-knowledge vultures of our time. But recover we can and must.

No retreat, No surrender, until we innovatively engage, master, control and strategically sustain our e-Knowledge resources that rightly belongs to us.

The policy flipside of the propagation of the other real side is, broadband for what?

Indeed, broadband for what? To receive and continuously consume more than 5,000 channels content from Cable TV produced by other nations? Or to continuously aid and abet massive capital flight through the leaking conduit of payment for foreign software applications and services that sometimes fail and never matured, dead on arrival or better still, never arrived these shores?  .

Oh, now I remember, perhaps it’s meant for the preparation and diffusion of indigenous zero-content e-books and e-distant learning solutions to fuel our appetite for conspicuous consumption and prepare us to sleep and sometimes wake up half in a state of coma to say, I “did not see, did not hear and did not speak” (when it matters most) lying on our digital slavery bed?

Now is the time to regain lost grounds and lost-time in IT knowledge incubation, innovation, development and creativity and build massive capacity of code warriors so that Nigeria’s future will be better secured, protected and owned by her people, as we march along the global thorny corridors of e-everything.

One thing is crystal clear and sure: Even as they lead us to the cloud (cloud computing) – Nigeria will be found sitting at the global table of Inter-Cloud!
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