CBN's cashless project 'll generate 300 jobs by 2012

The President of theNigeria ComputerSociety (NCS), Mr Demola Aladekomo, has said that the e-Payment Cashless programme of CBN will generate 50,000 IT-related jobs within the next six months alone, and another 250,000 by the end of 2012.'It is not nuclear science when we say one million IT- related jobs can be created within five years if a third of it is already being created just by the right policies within months.'Mr Aladekomo said this during a visit he and other executive members of NCS paid to the GMD of First Bank Nigeria Plc, Mr Bisi Onasanya recently, in Lagos.He added that NCS would be very much interested in partnering with the bank towards putting Nigeria firmly on the global IT map for their mutual benefit.His words: 'there are a few critical issues that we would like to lay emphasis on immediately to our benefit: Employment and Intervention Funding. We make bold to say that if fully utilised, the IT industry could put more people to work than a combination of three or four different sectors of the economy combined could do.'What we require is leadership and partnership with NCS in this critical area that may spell doom for our country if not urgently tackled. NCS intends working with the Federal Government towards creating, conservatively, one million IT-related jobs within the next few years.'In five years our key areas of focus towards achieving this goal are: Business Process Automation, Call Centre Operation, Health Care Delivery, Emergency and Disaster Response Systems, Software Development, Incubation and Knowledge Park development, to mention a few.
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