ANA Membership Database comes on Stream

ANA MEMBERSHIP DATABASE COMES ON STREAM

Following the series of attempts made by the Association of Nigerian Authors (ANA) over the years to develop a membership database directory, the outgoing National Executive Council made it one of its priority projects on coming on board in November,2015. The creation of the ANA membership database is under Programme 3 : Membership Services and Development of the ANA Strategic Plan(2017-2022) document that was launched in 2016. The project has gone through some phases in the last three years culminating in the nationwide distribution of the membership database forms to ANA chapters for members to fill and return for uploading into the prototype membership database being developed. 21 Chapters of the Association complied at various times with the directive on database development from the National Secretariat. The information supplied by the said chapters from the filled forms returned has been used by the firm engaged by ANA for the database development , Hifamous Concept and Technologies, to develop a database which captured a total number of 551 persons from 21 chapters. The database is arranged in Jpeg, pdf and DBMS formats with members captured under their chapters and assigned unique  ID numbers alongside  their photos and  other relevant information. 

The database as it is now, though still provisional, will later be hosted on the website of the Association with access granted to only authorized persons from both the National Executive Council and State chapters. When fully developed and functional the database will be useful in streamlining administrative issues and will be of great importance in the membership development, services and mobilization issues of the Association. The database will be one of the legacy projects that the Denja Abdullahi-led National Executive Council of ANA will pass on to the incoming administration to further work on and fine-tune for the greater functionality of the Association with respect to its membership capacities and spread.

Wole Adedoyin

National PRO South