Itan, Quality Assurance Institute Form Strategic Partnership

Information Technology Association of Nigeria (ITAN) and Quality Assurance Institute (QAI), a leading provider of quality productivity, and effective solutions for process management in the information services profession, announced a strategic partnership. Dr. Jimson Olufuye, Itan President, expressed Itan’s desire to promote relevant parts of ICT opportunities and Governments strategic plan for Nigeria’s ICT development; and to improve, IT industry competiveness in Nigeria which formed the partnership with QAI.
“With QAI delivering Quality Assurance and Project Management services, we have a very powerful solution that appeals to anyone wanting to improve their processes, ICT standard and project management practices. In particular, organizations wanting to advance through the Capability Maturity Model® (CMM®) levels will benefit significantly from this partnership."
Ashish Sehdev, Lead, ICT Capacity Building, of QAI Global, said QAI’s strategic alliance with ITAN will benefit their customers by reducing the time and effort required to achieve their specific quality goals. Mr. Sehdev is currently engaged with “QAI‟s Engagement in Egypt”, for the transformation of 100 IT and BPO companies and industry-wide software process improvement initiatives outlined the broad scope of services, programs and initiatives under the objectives of this partnership to be as below:
The Information Technology Association of Nigeria (Itan) is the leading voice of the ICT industry in Nigeria. ITAN was founded in 1991 to promote members‟ interests in all ramifications, to negotiate with government on tariff matters and promote IT penetration.
The Quality Assurance Institute was founded in 1980 in the United States of America. QAI’s founding objective was and remains to provide leadership in improving quality, productivity, and effective solutions for process management in the information services profession.