The Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) is worried that strategic agencies managing the country’s data and other infrastructures that make up its national intelligence resources are being managed by foreign IT companies. ISPON’s President, Olorogun James Emadoye, tells IT Edge News, Oluwatobi Opusunju, that local content policy should entrench the principle of ensuring strategic interest projects are largely managed by local software companies, except of course, where such local knowledge are lacking. ISPON plans to change the narrative on software import and to make the country less depended on foreign solutions. It’s the country that will best benefit with lesser pressure on its FOREX portfolio and a thriving local software industry that would create more jobs and expand business opportunities. Emadoye shares with IT Edge News in Lagos.

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