While education is the single most important investment in the future of individuals, communities, nations, and the world at large, by the year 3013, about 250 teachers and students globally are to benefit from Partners in Learning, a 10-year $500 million commitment by Microsoft to transform education systems around the world through technology.

Last week, search giant; Google, launched it’s first ever voice recognition technology for Africa as part of it’s long term bid to extend it’s influence on the continent, even as Smartphone owners in South Africa now can enter a voice command in Afrikaans and Zulu to receive search results via Google’s search engine.

The National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA in conjunction with the Nigerian Computer Society have concluded arrangement to visit this Friday, the Nigerian largest African IC market, the Computer Village, Ikeja to discuss many things including avenues to empower and assist IT practitioners among other things.

Traders in the largest ICT market in Africa, the Computer Village Ikeja have gone back to newspaper product price listing despite initial ban by the Computer and Allied Products Dealers Association of Nigeria, (CAPDAN), according to Vanguard CyberLIFE findings.

I wish to look back to 1960, and forward to 2060, to share my thoughts about the challenges to, and opportunities for, building a stronger Nigeria through technology. In the past 50 years, Nigeria has grown economically stronger through its use of technology to discover and then recover petroleum. Fifty years ago, Nigeria had only one oil well. Fifty years later, that first oil well is empty and abandoned. Do the math: “How many oil wells will Nigeria have left in 50 years?”

The issue on the front burner today is that of the registration of Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards. Let’s recall that while the telecom regulator the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, was tinkering with this idea about two years ago, the security agencies reportedly told the Commission that the nation can no longer wait.

FORMER Minister of Defense, Dr Olu Agunloye has advocated for the introduction of Information Communication Technology (ICT) into the library system in the nation education sector.

Industry experts and ICT professionals will gather in Lagos today at an IT forum that intends to x-ray the impact of ICT on the Nigerian economy now that the nation is fifty years old.

Basically, bandwidth is a critical commodity. It has been historically very expensive as it is based on the sharing of limited physical resources. But the Managing Director of Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited, NigComSat, Engr Ahmed Rufai has said that Nigeria can save the over $500million it expends yearly on the purchase of bandwidth from abroad if the country could launch more satellites.

As part of its deep concern and commitment to security around the world, Bikal Network group has begun operations in its Nigeria office.
The company, Bikal Network CCTV Nigeria Limited is a digital surveillance provider that specialises in the provision of state of the art surveillance technology covering the security needs of organisations both public and private.

As more banks are now suddenly taking a renewed interest in the African Mobile market, Senior Vice President, Fundamo Africa and Middle East, Reg Swart has said that the major problem for mobile operators who have been driving the market, would be how to defend their successful business model, and ultimately their revenues, against the encroachment of banks.

As the issue of cyber crime takes centre stage in every ICT discourse, Managing Consultant of EDP Audit and Security Associates, Mr. Christian Ekigwe has prescribed a panacea.

Mr Gbenga Adebayor is a key player in the telecom sector. He is widely known as the Chairman of Association of Licensed Telecom Operators of Nigeria, ALTON but besides this, he is the Chief Executive Officer of Communications Network Support Services Limited, CNSSL, a telecom outsourcing company that provides network management and support services to telecom operators.

Etisalat Nigeria in partnership with Samsung Electronics West Africa, last week held teeming Nigerian mobile subscribers spell-bound at the Souther Sun Hotels, Ikoyi Lagos, introducing the Samsung Galaxy tab into the Nigerian market.

TAKING the educational system o f ThirdWorld economies to the next technological level may have begun when global software maker, Microsoft gathered about 125 innovative teachers from 70 countries around the world in Cape Town, South Africa last week, celebrating their unique innovations targeted at transforming the traditional classroom into 21st century learning environment.