For a long time, one issue that has engaged the nation’s ICT experts and others is how to reduce poverty to a tolerable level in our country especially, and generally in the world.

Frontline mobile phone makers, Nokia, at the weekend announced that it was targeting to use the next few years to connect the next one billion people that are yet to be connected to mobile communications.

As preparations hit top gear for the 2011 edition of the West African ICT Congress, the Minister of Communication Technology, Mrs Omobola Johnson, has confirmed her attendance having been invited as the chief special guest of honour. The minister, who will be joined by other ministers, regulators, and dignitaries from West Africa and beyond, will also declare the Congress open.

The Director for the Central and North East Africa region at APC by Schneider Electric Jonathan Duncan has warned that companies should not oversize their data centers unnecessarily even with the additional pressures brought on by cloud computing.

Globacom last week pledged to continue using innovations in technology push the threshold economic growth in the country. It also promised that it would strengthen the communications industry with introduction of more up to the minute technology in the coming years.