There appears to be new dawn in the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON), representing the interests of the National Software Engineering and Services Developers Community in Nigeria as new National Executive Council to run the affairs of the Organisation for the next two years has emerged with the Oracle of the Nigerian ICT industry elected as the President.

About 474 schools spread across the six geopolitical zones of the country, have so far benefitted from complete set of Internet tools and facilities provided by the Universal Service Provision Fund, USPF. USPF is a special fund set up by the Federal Government under the National Communications Act 2003, designed to provide telecommunications and ICT services to unserved, underserved and deprived groups and communities in the country.

How best to evolve policies and regulatory guidelines that will address the ICT concerns of the physically challenged and the elderly people in the society was the focus of a one -day national summit on “ICTs and Accessibility for Persons with Special Needs and the Elderly” organized by the telecom regulatory agency, the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC .

APC by Schneider, a global leader in critical power and cooling services recently launched a field education programme even as it joined the Microsoft System Center Alliance to enhance and provide support for critical physical infrastructure monitoring and management through the integration of APC InfraStruXure Central with Microsoft System Center Operations Manager 2007.

For the Minister of Information and Communications, Prof Dora Akunyili, one of the major concerns of her ministry is to see that the quantum leap achieved in telecom development in the country is sustained and surpassed in the years to come.