At the just concluded 2010 edition of Cebit trade exhibition held in Hannover, Germany, the German district of Brandenburg was trialling the open source Navit car navigation system for its Police System

Except for some few innovations in recent times, technology has always sounded hoarse and scary to almost all Nigerians who ten years ago were actually out of the world ICT order. But the debut of Global System for Mobile Communications, GSM, in 2001, however tried to demystify the tech-scare, bracing all odds to make even the rural women users of technologies that were hitherto considered exclusive rights of the elite class.

information reaching Cyberlife has indicated a series of silent battles going on between some Internet Service Providers (ISPs) in the country and a group of super-brilliant Nigerians who are hard at work hacking into the different servers of these Internet Providers obtaining their IP addresses, proxy codes, numbers and addresses and selling same to interested buyers.

Kofi Anan, former Secretary-General of the United Nations, defined the information society as that through which “human capacity is expanded, built up, nourished and liberated, by giving people access to the tools and technologies they need, with the education and training to use them effectively.”

There has been excitement in the air as the Nigerian IT community awaits the launch of e-Knowledge – Time is Running book, a compendium of the writings of Christopher Maduabunachukwu Uwaje _ popularly known as the Nigeria IT Oracle.