A new country-by-country data on state of broadband access worldwide released last week by the United Nation Broadband Commission has indicated that over 50% of the global population would have Internet access within the next three years.

Continuing its strategy to arm mobile professionals with tools that make them more productive, Canadian smart phone maker, BlackBerry Limited has introduced into the market BlackBerry Passport.

As part of its efforts to spur more local innovation in Africa, Microsoft 4Afrika in partnership with AfriLabs, a pan-Africa network of innovation hubs have launched a new Collaboration Challenge to increase knowledge sharing across the hub network in Africa.

While Nigeria’s achievements in the Information and Communications Technology, ICT, industry have become ready subjects of discussions at global forums, the National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, has given indication of a new focus to further raise the tempo of activities aimed at taking the country’s ICT industry to greater heights.

Unless more state governments sign a Memorandum of Understanding, MoU, with the Ministry of communication technology for the implementation of the Smart State initiative, Nigeria’s quest to become a digital economy may be derailed.