The Federal Government of Nigeria has said it is working on training 1 million software developers in Nigeria in the next 18 months. To achieve this target, the government is calling for the support of major stakeholders across sectors of the economy, noting that it can not do it alone.
The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Pantami disclosed this while delivering his keynote address at a one-day virtual workshop organised by the Nigeria Software Testing Qualification Board (NGSTQB) with the theme “Role of Software Testing in Nigeria’s Digital Economy”.
The Minister says training and certifying more Nigerians as software testers have become imperative with the increasing integration of software into every sphere of human life and the need for a secure system,
What they are saying
While seeking the cooperation of the NGSTQB the Minister, said: “We want to see how we can license some of you to provide these services, that means if I develop software, I need to come to a certified tester to make sure I meet the standard quality assurance; all the basic bug-free, and the vulnerability assessment before I am able to sell that software”.
“This will eliminate having the market loaded with software with a lot of vulnerabilities. We are working on building the capacity of 1 million developers in the next 18 months and we know we cannot do it alone that is why we need people like you to help us achieve this.
“We are already working with some multinationals to help us on this and we also need the indigenous people to key into this initiative and we also need as many testers as developers,” the Minister added.
Also speaking, the President of NGSTQB, Mr. Boye Dare stated that NGSTQB aims to work assiduously to make Nigeria the software testing hub for the outsourcing software testing market in Africa.
A very well done to the Prof. Isa Pantami and the otganizers NGSTQB for getting this piece of information across. Below are my questions and quick call to action:
1. How do interested agencies and organization not currently within your ecosystem indicate interest?
2. At full consideration, whose responsbility “will it be drawing up the integrated AI inclusive test strategy” because as you know we do not want to wait for the softwares to have been fully developed before engaging the test agencies/testers whilst ensuring that all clients sponsors time & quality constrainsts to.market are met.
3. Does the plan consider as an inclusive strategy embedded elearning course content development & management with compliance to international standards as a complement to the “proposed classroom interventions”?
In addition to your questions and quick call to action, I would like to add this: Are our lecturers
in IT/Computer Soience in higher institutions be involved in this plan of action? Because we train the software developers.
Thanks Bashir Alhaji Balax for your feedback, i guess we all will have to wait for NGSTQB anf other respective stakeholders to come back to everyone on the eligilibity criteria but speaking from delivery persepctive, audience targetting and mapping to delivery mode is a given in the achievement of any client’s proximity objective to service.
You may also eant to look at it this way, government has hiterto shown interest in tertiary institution and entrepreneurial capability developments which i’m certain may be a basis for inclusion in the development of the eligibility criteria and extension to meet the audience number objective.
Where do I sign up for the software training?
Hi Michael,
I’m sure Nairametrics will help coordinate all responses with the relevant stakeholders and provide via this platform except there are exceptions to that,
Very Commendable move with the rate of illiterates among government parastatals and business in the country laden with fraud…
Hello!What are the necessary prerequisites thats needed for One to be qualified to cue in among the those that will participate in the training
Nowadays Software is basically life and it has come to stay. And it can be surely added that, it’s the foundation in which the future development will be build upon. May the development never leave us behind. Thank you.
How do I sign up for this please?
Nice One
I want to among the first 1 million people to benefit from the program. How do I go about it?
I want in
Good Job Sir, am interested in the training for the software testers, how do is go about it?