Capacity building, critical to Africa’s energy future
By Stephen Bolu Contrary to the new normal where technology leads business reformations, growth conversations in Africa’s business landscape, particularly in Nigeria energy sector, often begin with capital. Investment, infrastructure, and asset acquisition are frequently treated as the clearest indicators of progress. While important, they do not tell the full story of what is required […]
CTO’s cybersecurity forum: UK security Minister to deliver keynote speech
The Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation (CTO) has said that the Rt Hon Baroness Pauline Neville-Jones, Minister of State for Security and Counter-Terrorism in the UK, will deliver the keynote address at the Cybersecurity Forum 2010 slated to hold next week United Kingdom.
vision 20-2020:ICT must drive the economy, OLUFUYE, ITAN President
DR Jimson Olufuye presently is the President of the Information Technology Association of Nigeria (ITAN). ITAN, as a body, is Nigeria’s representative at the World Information Technology and Services Association (WITSA), a global IT body which held its congress in Amsterdam, The Netherlands last month.
On delays in filling critical vacancies in government
Concerns are beginning to be raised about the delays in appointment of persons to various critical positions in government. For a nation of over 140 million Nigerians at home and in the Diaspora, it cannot be that difficult to identify deserving Nigerians to be appointed to fill these vacancies.
Internet security: Microsoft, PIN host Alternative 2.0
There appears to be growing concern about internet safety even as the prevalence of social networking web sites, online communities, and internet-enabled processes is great news for individual, corporate, and government users. However, increased dependence on the internet for work, life, and play, is exploited daily by those who make the internet unsafe for others.
Used, refurbished computers rule market
Despite regulations by the Standards Organisation of Nigeria (SON), and the Basel Convention on the Control of trans-boundary movements of hazardous wastes and their disposal, large numbers of refurbished desktop computers and laptops still enter the Nigerian IT market, where demands for them remain high as a result of relatively cheap prices, CyberLIFE findings can reveal.
Way out of the woods, by ICT experts at WAFICT 2010
The 2010 West African Information and Communications Technology Congress (WAFICT) ended last week with experts in the industry calling for full deployment of resources in the sub-region to fast-track economic growth and to make the vision 20 2020 dream a reality.
NITDA supports PAT Nigeria event
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is supporting the Nigerian stop of the Python Africa Tour as the first of a series of training workshops which will kick off next week at the African University of Science and Technology, Abuja.
IT: Before that constitutional amendment (part 11)
Global challenges to nation-building in the 21ST century
The simple truth today, is that no nation can effectively succeed in solving her 21st century development challenges, unless the national vision aspiration, mission and strategies are fundamentally anchored in the realm of knowledge creation – and strategically driven by Science and Information Technology (SIT).
Subscribers want greater monitoring of promos
criticisms and complaints from the subscribers GSM networks have continued to trail the various promos currently run by the networks providers in the country.
ABU to host training on
The Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria, will early next month host a training on the deployment and management of fibre optic cabling at it’s ICT directorate located inside its main campus.
