FG to Receive First Set of Software Developers for Incubation

By next week, the Federal Government is expected to receive the first batch of software developers that would undergo one year training at the Lagos Incubation Centre.

Accenture Consulting, the Project Management Office (PMO), that is handling the ongoing selection process of software developer, has disclosed that 10 teams would emerge at the end of the exercise, after which they would be handed over to the Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, who would present them at the Lagos Incubation Centre for one-year training.

It would be recalled that the Minister had early this year, launched the Techlaunchpad initiative that seeks to groom software developers and make their products marketable and acceptable within and outside Nigeria.

Senior Project Manager for Techlaunchpad, Mr. Adebayo Ebrahim who confirmed the ongoing selection exercise, said "10 Teams will be selected and sent to the Lagos incubation centre for one year where they will receive training on practical skills on how to further develop and improve on their application software. Copied from: www.hotnigerianjobs.com

He said that the selection exercise, which commenced last week, is expected to end this week after which the presentation will be done next week.

The training programme is the idea of Techlaunchpad, an initiative of the Federal Government, with a joint sponsorship between the Federal Government and the private sector.

The first batch training is for software developers who have applications for the Oil & Gas and the Financial Institutions in Nigeria.

The two sectors are co-sponsoring the training with the federal government, and providing mentorship for the developers.

At the incubation centre, each team will have one Chief Information Officer (CIO) of banks and Oil & Gas companies that will be providing mentorship to them all through the one year incubation period.

It is expected that at the end of one year incubation, the developers would be able to come up with applications that will drive the Oil & Gas and the Financial Sectors of the Nigerian economy and could be exported to other countries to address similar situation. Copied: www.hotnigerianjobs.com

Total Automation Concept Limited, one of the teams that shared their views said their software, called the Production Resource Planner (PRP) was designed for Oil and Gas operations to address Well Testing, Metre Proving, Daily Production, Daily Production Received, Utilised Gas, Flared Gas, Daily System Start-ups and Daily Activity Reports in the Oil and Gas sector.

"It helps indigenous Oil and Gas companies in generating data for their daily calculations and operations and it is cost effective. It is an alternative to foreign software that is currently running in most multinational companies in Nigeria," the team said.

Source: Vanguard