The Institute
of Information Management (IIM) has announced plans to host a national summit
on Information Management themed, ‘Information Management For Change:
Roles And
Responsibilities Of Key Stakeholders’.
Minister of
Communications,Barr. Adebayo Shittu and
Minister for Science and Technology,Dr. Ogbonnaya Onu are among the dignitaries expected at the
Summit.
According to
Amb (Dr.) Oyedokun Oyewole, President / Chairman Governing Council, Institute
of Information Management (IIM) Africa, going by the current economic
realities, the National Summit on information management has become a National
emergency following the duplicity of data in various Government agencies, which
in itself is costly and difficult to manage.
This, he said,
has also negatively impacted on Government decisions in moving the Nation
forward, as lack of centralized, timely, quality and adequate information has
impeded on the Economic growth.
“In this era
of change, we must recognize that governments alone cannot improve the
situation in the country. To achieve our collective goals as a Nation, we need
to bring key stakeholders together across the country, from the private sector,
to civil society, to government. If we
do not work together, the situation just won’t change. Various stakeholders
need to understand their roles and responsibilities on how we can harness
information to better help improve the economy.
“It is
essential to identify the individuals and groups in the society who will
contribute to the development of the system, identify those that it will affect
from its introduction, and then develop a strategy for dealing with them, which
is why a summit of this nature is essential at this very point in time, he
said”.
Dr. Oyewole
described information management as complex and seems overwhelming but as
Nation, the country need to understand its essence in this day and age for a
countless of reasons. He said that there are so many tasks, information
sources, questions, critical connections and processes involved.
“For a country
like Nigeria that is trying to diversify the economy, we need to figure out how
information management can help solve pressing challenges, make the economy run
smoother, and address the needs of citizens. The good news: the mission of this
summit is to create the much desired awareness, culture and conditions to
capture, extract and leverage the value in the information managed by various
stakeholders in the Country and her ecosystem”, he noted.
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