IF elected as the next president of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), the chairman of Mobile Software Solutions, Chris Uwaje, has promised to generate over N100 billion as government stimulus package for Information Technology (IT) development in Nigeria in two years (2015 to 2017).

The NCS election is usually held during the society’s yearly conference. The 2015 edition starts today and ends on July 24, in Akure, Ondo state. Apart from the stimulus package, Uwaje has also promised to raise the present status of the NCS capacity, from 10,000 to 100,000 IT professionals, within two years, among several other initiatives.

Uwaje, in a document made available to journalists, said there was need to reposition the country’s IT sector to be able to meet the 21st century challenges.

Uwaje, who has wealth of IT and leadership experiences, said he would use the experience to transform NCS, recover lost grounds and take the society to an enviable height within a period of two years, if voted to steer the affairs of NCS in the next dispensation.

Other initiatives as promised by Uwaje, include the establishment of Computer Science Lecturers Innovation Forum; NCS IT Business Forum; Council of IT Past Presidents of NCS, Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), and Provosts of College of Fellows; NCS Yearly Fellow Dinner; Youth Forum for Innovative and National IT Hackathon; Entrepreneurial Forum for National Association of Computer Science Students (NACOSS); among others.

Uwaje promised that with these initiatives, he would use Information and Communications Technology (ICT), to positively disrupt the current settings in the national IT ecosystem, with a view to repositioning NCS and make it an enviable society that every government with IT initiative, cannot do without.

“The primary objective of these initiatives is to establish an all-inclusive National IT Forum as the technology pinnacle and organisational structure, which will deliberate on the challenges in the national IT ecosystem.

The Initiatives will also proffer solutions on how National IT/Education Innovations, Entrepreneurial Mission, Business Activities, Project Initiatives and Social Media, can be better domesticated and coordinated for maximum interest, youth employment and wealth creation impact,” Uwaje said.

Uwaje, who is also the ‘Oracle’ of the IT profession in Nigeria, is the immediate past President of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON), a founding member of Africa Emergency Technology Response Forum (AETRF), and a Fellow of NCS.

He had his primary school education at St. Finbarr’s College, Akoka, Lagos, before proceeding to Germany for further studies.

Between (1972-1980), he studied at Colonnade Language School (Hamburg), the Control Data Institute of Information Technology in Frankfurt, Germany.

Equipped with the knowledge of Computer Science and Software Computing, he enrolled for Operation Research at the British Institute of Engineering Technology, UK, incorporating professional certificates with Communication Technology, from the International Correspondence School, Glasgow, UK.

Uwaje has served several years as Member of Council of NCS and CPN. He served as member of the Governing Board of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), from 2011-2012.

He has been recognised with several awards in the ICT industry in Nigeria and outside the country. He therefore solicits the vote of NCS members in order to serve them better.