THE Association of Information and Communications Technology women practitioners, under the aegis of Women in Technology in Nigeria, WITIN, has unfolded plans to rally support for women in the rural areas where business has no global presence.

Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, at the weekend, has given security as the reason why all government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), must switch over to .gov.ng domain. Johnson said that the domain was more secure than those on freely available internet mail services.

THERE were strong indications last week that the Nigerian telecommunication sector will start sailing on smoother waters if suggestions, ideas and inputs made by the stakeholders in the telecom sector at the just concluded national stakeholders consultative forum were fully implemented.

FOR those using social media to commit cyber crime, it may not be business as usual again as indication has emerged that governments of the world may introduce ways and means of monitoring internet social media content.

Swiss technology company, Firmenich, last week boosted the Yaba College of Technology, YabaTech with a technology driven flavour laboratory, just as it also awarded three students of the institution with scholarships.