Section 34: Interpretation.

In this Act:
"Agency" means the National Information Technology Development Agency established under Section 1 of this Act;
"Board" means the Governing Board of the Agency established under this Act;
"computer" means any electronic device or computational machinery using programmed instructions which has one or more of the capabilities of storage, retrieval, memory, logic, arithmetic or communication and includes all input, output, processing, storage, software, or communication facilities which are connected or related to such a device in a system or network or control functions by the manipulation of signals, including electronic, magnetic or optical, and shall include any input, output, data storage, processing or communication facilities directly related to or operating in conjunction with any such device or system or computer network ;
"computer network" means the interconnection of one or more computers through;
"computer system" means a device or collection of devices, including input and output support devices and excluding calculators which are not programmable and capable of being used in conjunction with external files, which contain computer programmes, electronic instructions, input data and output data, that performs logic arithmetic, data storage and retrieval, communication control and other functions;
"data" means a representation of information, knowledge, facts, concepts or instruction which are being prepared or have been prepared in a formalised manner, and is intended to be processed, is being processed or has been processed in a computer system or computer network, and may be in any form (including computer printout, magnetic or optical storage media, punched cards, punched tapes) or stored internally in the memory of the computers;
"Director-General" means the Director-General of the Agency appointed under Section 8 of this Act;
"electronic form" with reference to information means any information generated, sent, received or stored in media, magnetic, optical, computer memory, micro film, computer generated, micro fiche or similar device;
"Electronic record" means data, record or data generated, image or sound stored, received or sent in an electronic for or micro film or computer generated micro fiche;
"Government" means the Federal Government of Nigeria ;
"information technology" encompasses all forms of technology used to create, store, exchange and use information in its various forms (business data, voice, conversation, still images, motion pictures, multimedia presentations and other forms including those not yet conceived);
"Minister" means the Minister charged with the responsibility of matters relating to science and technology;
"President" means the President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria.
"software" includes any program, procedure and associated documentation concerned with the operation of a computer system.