Anambra’s local AI raises Nigeria’s digital sovereignty hopes
*As OADC, Analytics Intelligence deal, media’s Big Tech battle fuel push for homegrown AI By Prince Osuagwu Nigeria’s dream of achieving artificial intelligence AI sovereignty may have received an unexpected boost from Anambra State, where the state’s ICT Agency has begun deploying a locally trained AI system to automate government operations and explore new ways […]
Ericsson unveils 2014 app award
Leading provider of telecommunications equipment and services, Ericsson has announced entry for an application award tagged The Ericsson Application Awards.
StarTimes’ TopTV rebrands, includes porn channels
ON Digital Media, ODM, owner of South African pay-TV platform, Top TV is in the news again. The development centred around a business plan to reposition the TV operator which some shareholders allege they were not privy to.
BBM records 80 million active users
Following the launch of BBM on Android and iPhone devices recently, with more than 10 million downloads in the first 24 hours, BBM has now ended its first week with more than 80 million monthly active users, including over 20 million new users on Android and iPhone devices.
CT Ministry to launch gender initiatives for women empowerment
The Federal Ministry of Communication Technology has concluded arrangements to launch gender based initiatives that will empower Nigerian women and girls.
The Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson disclosed this at a press conference in Abuja last Tuesday.
Nigeria needs more software start-ups – Johnson
Minister of Communications Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson has said that for Nigeria to be a software capable country in the knowledge economy, more start-ups were needed in software coding, and assured that her ministry will intervene in software coding academy through necessary support.
