Country Report,Nigeria : presented at the second(CODI) meeting held at Addis-Ababa Ethiopia between 4th and 7th September, 2001

Abstract

The recommendations of the first meeting of the United Nations Committee on Development Information (CODI) offered Nigeria the opportunity to develop a plan of action for information gathering, dissemination and management. CODI was mandated to address the issues of Information and Communication Technologies; Statistical Development; and Geo-Information which are of common interest to African Countries Economic Development. CODI requested ECA member nations to bring to the attention of their policy makers the need to acquire, disseminate and effectively manage information for socio-economic planning and development. In order to give effect to the decisions of the first CODI meeting, the National Planning Commission set up an inter-ministerial committee to study and articulate various opinions on the issue of the three sub-committees approved. The inter-ministerial meeting then created three sub-committees similar to that of CODI on:(i) Information and Communication Technologies, (ii) Statistical development, and (iii) Geo-Information.