Chairman of Zinox Group, Leo Stan Ekeh, has advocated the establishment of an Action Plan on ICT Youth Empowerment and Knowledge Economy for Imo State. Speaking at the just concluded Imo Youth Summit, the Zinox Boss said that the global recession of 2008/2009 revealed that youth unemployment was a major threat to economic growth and political stability.

EVen with N70 billion budget appropriation for ICT in the current financial year, the Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson has said that Nigerian ICT companies will be more attractive for listing in the Nigerian Stock Exchange, (NSE) unless certain bottlenecks including double taxation, right of way, site approval for base stations, among others were resolved with immediate effect.

In what appears another endorsement of Nigeria as the West African hub for intellectual information and communication technology, Learning Curve, has introduced the celebrated and highly commended digital teaching aid, Door to the Digital classroom which has recorded tremendous success in countries like South Africa, Botswana, Senegal and Zambia, among other southern African countries.

President and CEO of Ericsson, Mr Hans Vestberg has peeped through the Ericsson crystal ball, and predicted that two technological revolutions would change the world between now and 2016.

Yahoo! boss Scott Thompson stepped down on Sunday in the face of controversy about his allegedly inflated resume, leaving the struggling Internet pioneer seeking its sixth CEO in five years.

Considering that voice telephony has just become a basic service in many countries of the world today, while data transmission defines for them the speed which businesses are conducted in the new world order, Accenture, gathered technology experts and other industry stakeholders last week, in Lagos, to brainstorm on possible ways of promoting and sustaining broadband availability in Nigeria.

Last week at the Las Vegas Venetian Hotel and Resort in the US, no fewer than 9,000 technology and business experts worldwide gathered at the 2012 IBM Annual Impact conference that featured especially, latest IBM capabilities and solutions that help drive innovation, transformation and grow businesses.

The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and stakeholders in the Information Communications Technology (ICT) have commended the National Information Technology Agency (NITDA) on its strides in ICT development.

Team Gravity from Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile Ife in the category of software design who designed a healthcare solution called SwiftER , an application aimed at improving the response of Medical, Security and other services to emergency situations will fly Nigerian flag in Sydney, Austrailia in July 2012 for this year’s Microsoft software competition.

With its recent International Arch of Europe award based on ISO QC100 standard, the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, (ISPON) has called on the United Nations to as a matter of urgency establish a $100 billion digital marshal plan fund’ (DMPF) for the current and emerging Africa digital disaster (ADD).