All About us
ISPON - A Community of Indeginous Problem Solvers
About Us
Our Mission
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.
Our Vision
An innovative, rewarding and inspiring Knowledge Society empowered by the self-sustaining values, processes and products of software and related services
STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIPS
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.
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.
Silicon Valley Forum
Global Outreach Partner with Silicon Valley Forum which sees the transfer of Nigerian software startups to Silicon Valley in the US.
Ongoing Advocacy.
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.
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.
Meet Our Leaders
ISPON EXECUTIVES
Bimbo Abioye
President
Efe Emore
General Secretary
Raymond Osumah
Treasurer
Dr. Uche Mbanaso
Chair, Policy & strategy Committee
Israel Olakanmi
Chair, Membership Committee
Uzo Nwani
Chair, Media & Publicity Committee
Peter Ogedengbe
Chair, Education & Capacity Building Committee
Prof. Yakub Aliyu
Chair, Diaspora Committee
Chinenye Mba-Uzoukwu (FNCS)
Immediate Past President