Zakariyya Adaramola
28 April 2008
Lagos — The Nigeria Internet Group (NIG) has announced the request to be a beneficiary or sponsor in its Internet for Jobs (I4J) Initiative, expected to boost employment in the country and create self-reliant jobs.
President NIG, Engr. Lanre Ajayi made this disclosure at the end of a session with committee chairmen of the group, which held in Lagos, last weekend, saying that every notable strategy have been put in place to ensure that those to be selected as beneficiaries would meet the laid down requirement.
Engr. Ajayi who also is the chief executive PiNet Informatics, said that NIG has been reviewing processes since the launch of the initiative on July 12, last year by the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Ernest Ndukwe and the Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Professor Cleopas Angaye, in Lagos, on how best to ensure transparency and best practices in the exercise.
"Simply fill a form on I4J website and submit your project, then the relevant committee would evaluate and get back to the owners," he declared, that I4J is a brainchild of NIG designed to critically examine and discover the potentials inherent in the Internet to generate jobs for the populace and transform the nation eventually.
"... Especially the youths into a knowledge society," he said.
According to him, currently NIG has been able to attract some Promoters for the I4J Initiative, which include Zenith Bank Plc, representing the private sector, NITDA and NCC both representing the government of Nigeria in a multi-sectoral partnership formed soon after the initiative was launched.
"As a way of commitment towards actualizing the mission and vision of I4J initiative," Engr. Ajayi said, stressing that NIG vision for I4J, is to use the platform to transform Nigeria into an Information Society where business and government services are available online and the citizens positively engaged in knowledge-driven economic activities.
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