At the end of a capacity building eWorld forum held last week in Lagos, stakeholders in the Nigerian ICT industry were worried over snail speed of broadband penetration across the nation, saying that for Nigeria to leap-frog into global economy and compete favourably, deeper and wider broadband penetration across the country is very imperative for the challenges ahead.

At the just concluded 2010 edition of Cebit trade exhibition held in Hannover, Germany, the German district of Brandenburg was trialling the open source Navit car navigation system for its Police System

Since the introduction of free late night calls by the GSM operators, many Nigerians, especially youths take advantage of the offer to stay in touch with friends and acquaintances, often for long periods at a time during the night.

SEARCH engine giant, Google has announced the start-off of it’s annual African software programmers competition which is coming barely two weeks after the launch of it’s latest map domains which featured an elaborate and very extensive navigable map of Nigeria and that of thirty other African countries.

Executive ViceChairman of Nigeria Communication Commission, Engr. Ernest Ndukwe has identified broadbased consultation with stakeholders in the industry as key to the success he achieved so far as NCC boss.

“Digital inclusion brings about a level playing field. It means that the little girl in a village in Nigeria can get information for her research project as a little girl in Washington or China.”— Professor Turner Isoun, Former Minister of Science and Technology

It took quite some efforts to get little Favour Nwaiwu, an eight year old primary four pupil of Royal Family Academy, Abuja, to pose for a good photo shot. She is not a photo freak and by no inclination into any liking for fashion shows.

For the Chief Executive Officer of Commonwealth Telecommunications Organisation CTO, Dr Ekwow-Spio Garbrah, a major challenge facing the development of ICT in the commonwealth is that despite major advances, well over 70 percent of Commonwealth developing countries, especially the rural communities were still not connected to the information super-highway.. Garbrah said this situation has cut the developing nations out of the major chunk of world communications and global market benefits.

The Director General of the National University Commission, Professor Julius Okogie has said that only massive investment by the country in science and technology will guarantee the realization of Vision 20-2020.

The very positive stride recorded in the global development of Information Communications Technology has made human existence easier than could have been imagined. The developed countries of Europe and America have taken advantage of the numerous benefits of ICT to appreciably enhance their developmental profile particularly in the areas of human capacity building, knowledge acquisition and the creation of innumerable opportunities for the individual to optimize his potentials.