FOREWORD
On behalf of the National Executive Council (NCS) and conference’s organizing committee, I welcome you all with great pleasure and delight to the International Conference of the Nigeria Computer Society holding at Uyo, Akwa Ibom state, Nigeria from Tuesday, August 3 to Thursday, August 5, 2021. This year’s conference is themed “Innovative Systems for Digital Economy (ISDE’2021)”. The conference is aimed at providing a forum for public and private sector, academia, IT practitioners to discuss broad social, economic and technical trends that affects the development of digital economy. The conference also encourages interaction among research students, developing academics, established community and professional experts in an informal setting to discuss research work and policies that can be used in responding to the societal demands.
Diverse insightful papers had been submitted for this conference by professionals from the industry, government circles, research institutes and academia in several areas amidst which include: Technopreneurship: Powering Creativity; IoT & Robotics on Consumer Behaviour; Regulation & Digital Consumer Privacy; Inclusive vs Disruptive Innovation; Agenda for Digital Gender; Cyber Intelligence for National Security; Digital Technologies in Agriculture; Cloud and Edge Computing; Agenda for Digital Gender; Energy Efficiency (end user energy demand); Redefining Health Care in Digital Economy; Digital Economy: Governance, Policy and Regulatory Framework; Broadband: Citizen and Digital Access Right. Going by the quality of the papers, I am persuaded that there will be an extremely rich exchange of ideas of experts from across the globe.
It is noteworthy that this year, we are collaborating with Springer for better synergy as the accepted quality papers will be published in one of their journals. Recall that last year, the NCS secured a collaboration with Springer, a well-known and reputable publisher in the world. We are delighted to announce that the accepted papers have been published by Springer and it is available on:
https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-030-80216-5
The organizers of this conference owe a special thanks to all National and International guests as well as the lead paper presenters for accepting to be part of this year’s conference. In particular, His Excellency, the Governor of Akwa Ibom State, Mr. Udom Gabriel Emmanuel, Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Pantami and the Director of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Inuwa Kashifu Abdullahi. We really appreciate your support.
We also appreciate our partners- Computer Professionals Registration council of Nigeria (CPN), Sidmach Technologies, MainOne, Data Sciences Nigeria Limited, Zinox Technologies, CHAMS Plc., Computer Warehouse Group (CWG), CBC Emea, Soft Alliance and resource limited. It is our prayer that together, we will move Nigeria to a greater height. I wish you all, very exciting and resourceful deliberations and journey mercies back to your destinations at the close of this conference.
We wish to appreciate our editors and reviewers for their efforts towards ensuring quality presentations at this conference. The chairman, Local Organization Committee and all members of his committee who have taken the organization of this conference as task that must be accomplished, thank you all. The National Executive Council of the Nigeria Computer Society is immensely indebted to the dynamic conference planning committee, which worked assiduously, even against all odds, to make this a reality.
Thank you and God bless
Professor Adesina Simon Sodiya FNCS – President Nigeria Computer Society