I spent reasonable time in my late 20s and early 30s having to teach or lead classes on Technology Adoption, Information Technology, e-Governance etc for elderly folks. 3 governors in a row would later enter history as having been my students at one point or the other.
Pa. Adebayo Adefarati and Dr. Olusegun Agagu are now late. But it would amount to grave perjury were Dr. Olusegun Mimiko to develop a comprehensive CV, a bio-data or write his autobiography without including my name gadagba as his teacher at some point.
Why?
Because such technologies were never mainstream in their prime. In the Ondo State budgets of 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 and up to 2003, it was not uncommon to see line items such as
"Procurement of email for website cleanliness"
"integration of typewriting into server email" , and;
"purchase of 1 unit of website for email server configuration"
EVEN as many departments of government had official emails such as: www.ODSGCOMMERCE.ORG@odsg.yahoo.com.
As ridiculous as you now find these, most top people were living in the dark at the time and the ICT quacks on hand took full advantage of the knowledge gap to shove anything down the system. And the governors, the House of Assembly etc all approved such ridiculous items - being ignorant of the fact.
Even in 2013 Nigeria, we still had wwwDOTmyOgaAtTheTop.
As at 2015, Okonjo-Iweala still paid billions on enterprise grade automation of monthly FAAC shares that only included placing a pdf copy of monthly FAC releases in a folder on the official website of the Federal Ministry of Finance.
In 2010/11, Nigeria's INEC still spent close to N89billion on a Nigerian invention called the Direct Data Capturing Machine. Ask tech geeks in Silicon Valley, they would ask you "what?"
In Shell Petroleum where I worked as a Youth Corp member, I had a top boss in my department with whom I attended several DWOP meetings. For the personal relationship we had, he had to invite me after every meeting to take him through the rudiments of the top range ICT facilities that SPDC deployed at the time. He confided in me that others did not know he never checked anything posted for the group in the group's secured servers. In fact, he had no clue what a server was or the noise we younger ones made about the network typologies adopted by Shell. Now as at that time, SPDC maintained top level ICT compliance and smart office mechanism for that age under a management contract with Tranter.
The technology space, especially InfoTech, expanded rapidly and exploded during our own time. Compare for instance the time it took the radio cassette to do yanga as the dominant recording device until it met its Waterloo and faced sure extinction during our time as a results of the rapid explosion and gains in ICT knowledge. Now you probably have heard about resistive random access memory (RRAM) and its possible layers that would make our current super storage devices soon look like dinosaurs!
So Hillary Clinton, the lady that is 80% certain to become the next USA president kept a private email server? And so what?! Who told anyone she had a clue or understood the difference between a private server and an official one (for want of avoiding the use of the word 'public').
I am sure she is ignorant of the fact! Now the FBI agrees.
Bring up next dirt - please.
