IT governance takes centre stage

IT governance has moved to centre stage, and its not about committees, processes, forms and procedures, but rather about involving as many people as possible, all supported by IT, writes Australian CIO Magazine.

Everyone seems to be talking about IT governance, and most people agree that careful selection of who makes decisions about technology investments will have a major impact on how successful those investments will be.

But, the real challenge in making good governance happen is not the designing of committees, processes, forms and procedures; it`s meeting the challenge of participation. Getting people involved is what IT governance is really about.

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The number and complexity of SOA deployments seem to be weighing up against compliance and IT governance requirements in the enterprise, reports InfoWorld.

However, Mercury Interactive will unveil a new strategy at this year`s Mercury World conference in Las Vegas in the hopes of providing an answer.

The strategy, called BTO (business technology optimisation) for SOA, aims to "mitigate the business risks, so you can get the original value that you`re trying to get to," said Christopher Lochhead, Mercury`s chief marketing officer.

The Nigerian Federal Government has set some $150 million aside for ICT in Nigerian Universities in line with ongoing federal reforms, reports All Africa.

Vice chancellor of the University of Calabar, Professor Bassey Asuquo, said that the commissioning of the cyber Caf'e at its College of Medical Sciences has allowed for a facility to be set up that will allow access to the loan, which is in line with on-going Federal Government reforms in IT compliance.

The outgoing Provost of the College of Medical Sciences, Professor Onuba, said the commissioning of the project is an indicator to donors that the College has complied with the mandate to be fully ICT compliant.