The Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) has urged governments at all levels to adopt Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as a way to tackle corruption.
The President, ISPON, Dr Yele Okeremi, in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Lagos on Monday, said automation of government would promote transparency, accountability, speed, increase record keeping and above all curb corruption.
According to him, all that is required to tackle corruption in the country is the political will.
Okeremi said that automation or digitalisation would also enhance increased revenue as the world had moved from extractive industry to knowledge-based.
“If government should automate all processes and give Nigerians the power to automate all processes, these would reduce corruption, create wealth, create jobs, create capacity, created equity and a better society.
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“ISPON has been creating awareness on the need to automate all the processes in the country to get rid of corruption.
“I am the fifth president of ISPON and all my predecessors also sensitised the country on the need for automation.
“The sensitisation was directed to embrace digitilisation so that our country would step up among nations technologically.
“The world has moved away from extractive industry and that is where we still are, we are living 200 years behind,’’ he said.
Okeremi also said that the future of humanity was knowledge-based and not dependent on anything coming from the ground.
NAN reports that ISPON is a non-profit organisation whose aim is to promote software technology in Nigeria
