Membership of the association cuts across different categories tailored to fit a diverse range of software developers, software testers and software users.
Corporate (Professional): Corporate Organisations that generate revenue from Software Development, Testing or Sales.
Corporate (Academic): Secondary and Tertiary Institutions that make use of Software (not necessarily for revenue generation).
Corporate (Startups): Corporate Organisations that generate revenue from Software Development, Testing or Sales in operation for less than five years.
Individual (Professional): Professional Software Practitioners who develop software in IT Organisations or non-IT Organisations (e.g Banks, Hospitals, MDAs e.t.c).
Individual (Academic): Professional Software Practitioners who teach/lecture in Secondary/Tertiary Institutions as well as Students/Undergraduates who are studying this field.
partner (Professional): Corporate Organisations that make use of Software to aid their services (e.g Telcos, Aviation, e-Commerce Stores e.t.c).
Partner (Academic): Corporate Organisations that promote the use of Software as well as train/develop budding software talents. (e.g Educational Hubs, Acceleration Centers e.t.c).
ISPON is the industry professional body for software developers in Nigeria. Join us today as we advocate for a better, stronger and viable software ecosystem!
Requirements:
1. Certificate of Incorporation of your company
2. Company profile
3. Recent copy of tax clearance
4. Profile of board of directors (it's required that at least 2 members should have a software background)
5. Proof of software developed (links should be provided if hosted online)
Payment Details:
Bank: Polaris Bank
Account name: ISPON
Account number: 1770424262
Procedure:
1. Fill the membership registration form online
2. Mail scanned copies of required documents
3. Pay the membership processing fee of Fifty Thousand Naira (N50,000.00), Twelve Thousand Naira (N12,000.00) and Ten Thousand Naira (N10,000.00) only for Corporate, Startup and Individual membership respectively
4. Mail proof of payment to to admin@ispon.org
ISPON is the industry professional body for software developers in Nigeria. Join us today as we advocate for a better, stronger and viable software ecosystem!
Please fill the registration form for your required membership category then send scanned copies of required documents to admin@ispon.org
Benefits of professional associations go both ways, what members can come together to do for the profession and what the association can offer to members. What ISPON offers to its members include but are not limited to:
Access to cutting edge information on the local and international software industry.
Opportunity for certification to be a preferred vendor or technology contractor with MDA's or organizations in the private sector
We provide information on jobs in top information systems companies and corporate recruiters as well as allow members to post their resumes.
Information on select programs with our partner tertiary institutions and professional certification bodies.
Opportunity to deepen existing business relationships and make new contacts with others who have common interests and similar business concerns.
ISPON members have opportunity to speak at various ISPON events, and serve on the board of various government policy bodies
ISPON is the industry professional body for indigenous software developers and practitioners in Nigeria. Established in 1999 with the aim of creating an enabling environment for local content developers. She has been in the forefront of championing the advocacy for the application and utilisation of locally developed software in order to boost our economy, GDP and give Nigeria an alternative to oil as a revenue earner.
To impact on national development and the software ecosystem through innovation, sustainable development and pervasive application of Nigerian software and services in all spheres of human endeavor.
An innovative, rewarding and inspiring Knowledge Society empowered by the self-sustaining values, processes and products of software and related services.
º Office for National Content in ICT (ONC): This partnership sees the listing of indigenous software companies in Nigeria on a national portal and ensures the monitoring of software local content compliance throughout the nation.
º Bureau for Public Procurement (BPP): This sees the scrutinizing of all software tenders', making sure that software required that is already existing in the local space can only be sourced locally, same for software not yet existing but which we have the capacity to develop locally before the importation of foreign software is considered.
º Silicon Valley Forum: Global Outreach Partner with Silicon Valley Forum which sees the transfer of Nigerian software startups to Silicon Valley in the US.
º Implementation of the Executive Order 003: Closely working with the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) on the implementation of the Executive Order 003 recently signed into law by the Presidency.
º Bank of Industry (BoI): Discussions on instituting an intervention fund for the software industry. This fund will make available working loans for projects by software companies.
The President of ISPON, Chinenye Mba-Uzoukwu is billed to deliver the Keynote at the Global Power Platform Bootcamp 2021, Lagos, Nigeria. It's a free event driven by user groups and communities around the world, for anyone who wants to learn more about Microsoft’s Power Platform. (Read here)
The Director General of the National Office for Technology Acquisition and Promotion (NOTAP) Dr. DanAzumi Mohammed Ibrahim recently hosted the new National Executive Council of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON) at the NOTAP headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria's capital city. (Read here)
This report serves as documentation of progress made to date in Phase One of the multi-stage programme envisaged. A 2-day Workgroup forum was conducted to get a clear understanding of the issues of Social Media usage as well as to articulate a possible high-level roadmap for policy development. (Read here)
We are pleased to release to the public the report, Who Decides Social Media Policy? developed by the Office of the Chief of Staff to the President in collaboration with ISPON based on the deliberations and meeting notes of the workgroup meetings of December 3rd & 4th 2020 (Read here)
Python Nigeria will be hosting a virtual Talk-shop on Friday, 18 December, 2020. Please endeavour to register as only registered attendees will be sent the meeting link.
(Register here)
A memo from ISPON on collaboration with the Office of the Presidency on a working group to design an approach to social media policy that protects all and promotes its use in a positive and productive way.
(Read here)
ISPON is working with Python Nigeria to build the python community from 5,000 to 50,000 in 2 years. It's a project we are committed to and are excited at the challenge it poses. More details will be divulged as we make progress.
We would like to hear from you; complaints enquiries, comments, suggestions or advice. Feel free to drop by our office, give us a call or send us messages via the following details:
8, Oduduwa Way
G.R.A, Ikeja, Lagos, Nigeria
234 808 531 7869
234 803 300 5005
234 813 286 9927
