ISPON Honours Minister of Communication Technology for Excellence

Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) has presented an Award of Excellence to Minister of Communication Technology, Dr (Mrs)  Omobola Johnson, in recognition of her role in initiating policies and programmes fostering innovation and entrepreneurship in the software ecosystem in Nigeria.

President of ISPON, Pius Okigbo, presented the award to the Minister at the recent  institute’s sixth annual presidential dinner in Lagos, stressing that the institute was honoring the Minister because her tenure as the Minister of Communication Technology had witnessed “an accelerated and outstanding delivery of a plethora of ICT initiatives enabling the development of Nigeria’s ICT sector.”

ISPON was formed in 1999 with the aim of creating an enabling environment for local content developers to thrive locally and internationally.

Membership of the association is drawn from different categories that key into diverse range of software developers, software testers and users.