Their project, AsthmaVisor is a phone app,synthesized with an external hardware to provide real-time monitoring of asthmatic patients. The solution monitors and supervises asthmatic patients’ health statuses and environmental conditions and gives early warning signals to pre-defined emergency contacts if a threat to a patient’s health exists, alerting them of the situation and the location of the patient.

lDeveloping and obtaining presidential approval for a National Broadband Plan (2013-2018). lDevelopment of a National e-Government Master Plan. lStandardization of the websites of Federal Government Ministries and agencies. lAdoption of the ‘.gov.ng’ domain name across Federal and state governments. lCreation and adoption of “@fedcs.gov.ng “ email address system for all Civil Servants. lCreation of the Council of Heads of ICT of Federal Government MDAs to engender unity of purpose in implementation of ICT budgets within the FGN.

Learning is a journey, and not a destination. I attended the New Media Conference organized by Tosin Olori Supergal at the Terra Kulture event center in Lagos, and listen to various topics related to social media. I will be sharing what I learnt at the event with you. The speaker is Adekoya Adetola, and he talked about building an entertainment brand on social media. His 4 tips are:

By Friday, July 22, 2015, members of the Nigerian Computer Society, NCS, will head to the polls in Akure, Ondo State during the international conference to elect the IT icon that will steer the ship of the society for the next two years. Whoever wins would become President of the umbrella organization of all Information Technology Professionals, Interest Groups and Stakeholders in Nigeria.

In a bid to enhance connectivity options for its corporate customers, telecommunications service provider, Airtel Nigeria, has launched a secure Multiprotocol Label Switching, MPLS, network.

“We are happy to officially welcome Technology Distributions into our Business Partner Programme. Our delight further stems from TD’s status as one of the biggest and most structured ICT distributors in Nigeria and the West African region as a whole. In view of our desire to make further in-roads into Sub-Saharan Africa, we are confident that this partnership with TD will undoubtedly accelerate the rate of access to the wide range of innovative solutions that EMC is known for world-wide.”

Ever since MTN Nigeria began its annual Corporate Social Responsibility programme, Y’ello 21 days of care in 2007, the company’s helping hands have been extended to improving the health sector, preserving the environment, helping the less privileged, and a host of other activities. For MTN Nigeria however, almost no other sector has received as much attention from this programme as the education sector. It was not a surprise therefore, that when the 2015 edition was launched at the MTN golden plaza in Lagos on Monday, the focus was again on education.

The former President hit the ground running with the creation of the Ministry of Communications Technology in 2011, to foster a knowledge based economy and information society in Nigeria. Other areas of the ministry were to facilitate universal, ubiquitous and cost effective access to communications infrastructure throughout the country.

Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced that Windows 10 will be available July 29, 2015 in 190 countries.

African business leaders including thirty Chief Executive Officers from Nigeria will gather in Abuja next week for the 2015 Chief Executive Officer’s round table organized by the Africa ICT Alliance, (AfICTA) with the theme “Mobilizing African Business Leaders for the future of the Internet”