You are warmly welcome to The Official website of (Nigeria) COPINE. As you may have noticed,at this time, the Website is still under heavy construction. This may continue for a while,therefore we crave your indulgence .

However I will begin by saying the Acronym COPINE stands for Cooperative Information Network. COPINE is a Nigerian Federal Ministry of Science and Technology Information Technology (IT) Research Centre directly established under NITDA (National Information Technology Development Agency). COPINE was established in the year 1996 as a Pilot Project (under the aegis of the United Nations Office of Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) ) involving five African countires with the Nigerian chapter located at the Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife . COPINE has a specific mandate to bring to the rank and file of Africans/Nigerians the common knowledge and use of Information Technology for positive development and profit in every facet of life’s endeavor. To speedily attain to this feat, Networking of Professionals, scientists, Educators and Decision Makers appears to be the viable option.

COPINE is also expected to facilitate much more. Examples are

Moreover COPINE mandate is strategically posed to covers five broad areas of the Nigerian Economy.

 

COPINE also maintains a rich collection of Users Groups. Further information about this Group will be dispensed in due time.

I am confident that as you surf this website you are bound to obtain more revealing infromatioon about COPINE.

Once again, you are warmly welcome !