Computer Professional Registration Council of Nigeria Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria is a corporate entity charged with the control and supervision of computing profession in the country. The computer professionals were established through Act No. 49 of 1993 promulgated on June 10 and gazette on August 9.
Functions of CPN The body is charged with the responsibility of determining the standards of knowledge and skills to be attained by persons seeking to become members of the profession and improve those standards from time to time as circumstances permit.
It is also part of the responsibility of CPN to maintain a register of persons seeking to be registered under the Act to practice computing profession and the publication from time to time of the list of such.
They conduct exams known as Computer Professionals Examinations to other professionals that are interested in building career in Information Technology (IT). Upon completion of the exam, the person will be registered under a full member category.
EVALUATION State five computer Professionals bodies.
State two functions each of any two of the Professionals Bodies in question one above.
Institute for Management of Information System(IMIS) The institute for the management of information system exists to promote and support the professional use, application, and management of information system.
The institute for the management of information system is the teaching of independent professional association for both users and developers of today’s information technologies.
VISION/FUNCTION OF IMIS The IMIS vision is to see that information system management is recognized as one of the key professionals influencing the future of the world. Mission is to further the course of professional in the cause of professionalism in the use of information system through life-long learning and to increase the awareness by the public as an individual or as an organization of the advances, implication and potential in information system.
