This letter was reproduced with permission.
I visited the NIDOE website after reading the "Nigeria is now a different country By Frank Nweke, Posted to the Web: Tuesday, July 04, 2006, Being keynote address delivered by Mr Frank Nweke, Minister of Information at seminar organised by Nigerians in diaspora, under the aegises of Nigerians in Diaspora organisations Europe ( NIDOE)" http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/politics/july06/04072006/p104072006.html
I was appalled to find a non communicative website in a world of blogs and forums. http://www.nidoeurope.org/nidoe/shtml/index.html today still contained information from 30th March 2006. Collaborative working is the only way to communicate and get people participation. For example, there are various Nigerian "talk shops" on the web that average about 10,000 hits per day. Can you imagine the number of visits NIDOE will get if modelled under this type of methodology? Our people will update information 100% free for their country.
Given that a lot of us have heard of NIDOE but that is just about it, I have taken time to contribute by writing an email in a world of SMS. Email was yesterday's tool here abroad and your premise for maintaining contact with the Nigerian government, Nigerian organisations and NIDO Americas only represent a minority of Nigerians abroad. How can you provide opportunity for Nigerians living in Europe to learn to work and collaborate with one another? Why should I donate to an entity I have zero relationship with? This from the website "The most important resources in ensuring sustainable development in any country are the human resources." is only a statement and can only be true if the correct tools are used to develop the talent capital.
The web enables "The main vision of NIDOE is to bring Nigerians living in Europe together and to identify those willing to offer their skills (economic,education, information technology, science, arts, gender and youth empowerment, law, health, governance, management/ administration, building, etc) to assist Nigeria's developmental process". While our best seem pretty much ordinary, "fit and proper persons" are already doing a lot of good work informing Nigerians and the rest of the world about everything Nigerian.
This organisations must change by embracing the web and bringing in everyone including the "hot heads" whose talents will only help our country. Better to be inviting, rather than invisible is borrowed here as a summary in order to help our country move forward. We are abroad where most things work well and have experienced excellence. Why not bring that into our country, starting with Nigerians in the Diaspora organisations.
I visited the NIDOE website after reading the "Nigeria is now a different country By Frank Nweke, Posted to the Web: Tuesday, July 04, 2006, Being keynote address delivered by Mr Frank Nweke, Minister of Information at seminar organised by Nigerians in diaspora, under the aegises of Nigerians in Diaspora organisations Europe ( NIDOE)" http://www.vanguardngr.com/articles/2002/politics/july06/04072006/p104072006.html
I was appalled to find a non communicative website in a world of blogs and forums. http://www.nidoeurope.org/nidoe/shtml/index.html today still contained information from 30th March 2006. Collaborative working is the only way to communicate and get people participation. For example, there are various Nigerian "talk shops" on the web that average about 10,000 hits per day. Can you imagine the number of visits NIDOE will get if modelled under this type of methodology? Our people will update information 100% free for their country.
Given that a lot of us have heard of NIDOE but that is just about it, I have taken time to contribute by writing an email in a world of SMS. Email was yesterday's tool here abroad and your premise for maintaining contact with the Nigerian government, Nigerian organisations and NIDO Americas only represent a minority of Nigerians abroad. How can you provide opportunity for Nigerians living in Europe to learn to work and collaborate with one another? Why should I donate to an entity I have zero relationship with? This from the website "The most important resources in ensuring sustainable development in any country are the human resources." is only a statement and can only be true if the correct tools are used to develop the talent capital.
The web enables "The main vision of NIDOE is to bring Nigerians living in Europe together and to identify those willing to offer their skills (economic,education, information technology, science, arts, gender and youth empowerment, law, health, governance, management/ administration, building, etc) to assist Nigeria's developmental process". While our best seem pretty much ordinary, "fit and proper persons" are already doing a lot of good work informing Nigerians and the rest of the world about everything Nigerian.
This organisations must change by embracing the web and bringing in everyone including the "hot heads" whose talents will only help our country. Better to be inviting, rather than invisible is borrowed here as a summary in order to help our country move forward. We are abroad where most things work well and have experienced excellence. Why not bring that into our country, starting with Nigerians in the Diaspora organisations.
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“How can you have a Minister of Foreign Affairs that can not communicate on the internet with the rest of the world on the internet?” Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala
I hate to say that many of these organizations- NIDO or whatever it calls itself are mere appendages of the Nigerian government. They're hollow associations without souls.
How do we help them? Can we sue them for being stupid? They are abroad and are made up of people abroad is the whole point. Who are these people? These "hollow associations" can be turned around.
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