Florence Seriki becomes Vice Chairman of World IT Advisory Board

The President of Information Technology Industry Association of Nigeria (ITAN), Mrs. Florence Seriki, has been elected as the new Vice Chairman, African region, for the World Information Technology and Services Advisory Board (WITSA). The election was carried out in Mexico recently.

WITSA, organisers of the on-going World Congress on Information Technology (WCIT) in Guadalajara, Mexico, is a consortium of associations from the information and communications technology (ICT) industry around the world. Founded in 1978, the group represents over 90 per cent of the world ICT market through its global membership, and has a goal of advancing the growth and development of the ICT industry. It participates in advocacy in international public policy that affects the global information infrastructure.

Florence Seriki MFR, FNCS

Florence Seriki is founder and CEO of Omatek Ventures Plc (The Nigerian computer Company, was founded about 25 years ago)

Seriki commenced one-on-one computer training for executives within the banking and oil sectors over 25 years ago to lay foundation for the establishment of Omatek Ventures Plc

• She is a recipient of one of Nigeria’s highest national honours; to wit she is a Member of the Federal Republic (MFR) in recognition of her selfless service to her Motherland.
• Omatek Ventures Plc consists of the following subsidiaries: Omatek Computers Limited which pioneered Pioneer Completely Knocked Down (CKD) Factories  involved in the Production of Computers, Notebooks, Casings and Speakers; Omatek Engineering Services Subsidiary which offers ERP Solutions including Information Security Management;

• Omatek Computers Limited  has CKD Factories in Nigeria and Ghana involved in the Production of Computers, Notebooks, Casings and Speakers from Completely Knocked Down Processes
• Omatek Computers Limited  is first to win the Microsoft Best Systems Builders Award 2005 for Central, West and East Africa in 2005
• Seriki is touted as Nigeria’s IT Amazon and has over a 150 national and international recognition awards; she has led Omatek in the last 25 years to become Nigeria’s only publicly quoted computer company; and helped to create massive Local Youth Employment/Empowerment in the technology industry and has enabled Technology Transfer and increase in Local Content
• Serriki’s Omatek Ventures Plc has created many derived Small Medium Enterpreises (SMEs) servicing the core IT industry
• Seriki’s Omatek Ventures Plc has helped to produce IT tools massively for the Nigerian Government Computer Assisted Program under the CANI Computer acquisition Program for Nigerian Civil Servants as part of the efforts to re-engineer the public service for more efficiency
• Seriki’s Omatek Ventures Plc has also helped to produce IT tools  for the Ghana’s Government Computer Assisted Program (GAPP) under the i-Advance Computer acquisition Program for Ghanaian Citizens
• Seriki is a believer in Local Content Development in the ICT sector and the enormous potential that ICT has to offer in achieving the Millennium Development Goals, she has led Omatek Ventures Plc to partner with other private sector players and academic institutions on Research & Development to “ensure that the benefits of new technologies, especially ICT are available to all. This has resulted in the establishment of Omatek Resource Centres across many Universities/higher institutions to provide hands-on experience for undergraduates.
• Seriki is the chairperson of the Electronic and Telecommunications group of the Nigerian-American Chamber of Commerce, and a member the Nigerian National Information Technology Advisory Committee.
• She is a member of the Governing Council of Adekunle Ajasin University, Akungba, Ondo State, south west Nigeria.
• In recognition of her business acumen, she was invited to join the Board of Directors of Vitafoam Nigeria Plc in October 2009.  
• Seriki is currently the President of the Information Technology Association of Nigeria (ITAN)
• Seriki is on the Presidential Private Public Committee; and on the special Presidential Committee on Port Reform; who are mandated to reduce custom clearing to 48 hours from almost a month.
• Seriki is a family woman and blessed with three children
• She is currently wielding  The Woman Of The Year Award
• Seriki has been inducted into into the Obafemi Awolowo University, Faculty of Technology Hall of Fame
• Seriki is an alumnus of Obafemi Awolowo University, one of Nigeria’s oldest universities, with a degree in Chemical Engineering.