The 2021 edition of the Annual Africa Tech Alliance Forum (AfriTECH) event has been scheduled to take place on Wednesday, October 13, 2021, by 10:00 am (WAT). Formerly known as Mobile & Disruptive Technology Forum (MoDiTECH), AfriTECH2021 will hold as a hybrid event- both Virtual and Physical, with strict compliance to COVID-19 protocols. Organisers of the event said it promises to be bigger, better and to serve as an interesting Forum for inter-sectorial cross-fertilization of ideas on economic impacts of COVID-19 on digital transformation and the way forward for businesses. #AfriTECH2021 Central theme is ‘Embracing Change and Digital Transformation in…
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The 2Africa consortium has announced the addition of four new branches to the 2Africa cable. The branches will extend 2Africa’s connectivity to Seychelles, the Comoros Islands, and Angola, and bring a new landing to south-east Nigeria. The new branches join the recently announced extension to the Canary Islands. 2Africa consortium comprises of China Mobile International, Facebook, MTN GlobalConnect, Orange, STC, Telecom Egypt, Vodafone and WIOCC. 2Africa, which will be the largest subsea cable project in the world, will deliver faster, more reliable internet service to each country where it lands. Communities that rely on the internet for services from education…
….The Commission extols his virtues, leading role in Nigeria’s GSM revolution
Policymakers at both the federal and state levels in Nigeria have been called upon to put in more efforts that would result in Nigerians having access to ubiquitous Internet. This call was made by experts who converged on Monday at a conference in Lagos, commemorating the 2021 World Wide Web Day organized by the Centre for Cyber Awareness and Development (CECAD). The experts argued that ubiquitous and affordable Internet will easily lead to more Nigerians lashing on to the digital economy being pursued and championed by the federal ministry of communications and digital economy. Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani, President of the…
Huawei has launched its 2021 HMS App Innovation Contest (Apps UP), a premier global contest for mobile application developers. The competition aims to attract established and emerging talent in the application development space, and showcase their efforts in creating seamless, smart, and innovative digital experiences that contribute to a digital, intelligent world. Developers can submit their participation until 5th September 2021. The contest will allow participants to join a rich community of 4.5 million registered developers from around the world, as well as 50 industry experts who will form the panel of judges for the competition. Winners of the contest…
Global investment in Fintech bounced back strongly in the first half of 2021, hitting $98 billion with a record number of deals, according to KPMG. Funding across VC, PE and venture capital for H1 2021 was up $12 billion from $87 billion in the same period the previous year, with deal volume hitting a record of 2456, following a sticky, Covid-19-hit 2020, Global VC investment reached over $52 billion for the six months — very close to the annual record of $54 billion seen in 2018. The largest VC rounds include Robinhood ($3.4 billion), Brazil’s Nubank ($1.5 billion), BNPL firm…
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Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mallam Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, has said the web is the backbone of the digital economy as it serves as a pathway to opportunities in the digital economy through connectivity, data, and digital platforms. Represented by Dr Muhammad Aminu Lawal, Special Assistant on Digital Transformation to the Director-General, Abdullahi said this while delivering a keynote address at the World Wide Web Day, a hybrid event organised by the Centre for Cyber Awareness Development (CECAD) with the theme “The World Wide Web: Creating Opportunities for the New African Digital Economy.” He said internet connectivity ensures…
The consideration of possible areas of increasing collaboration to enhance the impact and contribution of the telecommunications sector on Nigeria’s socio-economic development formed the crux of deliberation at a meeting between the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and the Nigeria Economic Summit Group (NESG). The meeting took place during a recent courtesy visit to the NCC by a delegation of the National Assembly Business Environment Round Table (NASSBER), a policy unit at NESG led by Nnanna Ude and a member of the technical committee of NASSBER, Yemi Keri. The need for stakeholder collaboration and engagement between the Commission and other stakeholders…
Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, has said that the Federal Government would soon unveil policies to unbundle the Nigerian Postal Services (NIPOST). The Minister who made this disclosure on Tuesday in Abuja at the unveiling ceremony of the NIPOST revenue stamp, described NIPOST as one of the most important institutions of government, adding that policies that would transform its operations and make it innovative would soon be unveiled. “We have so many policies of transforming NIPOST in the pipeline and part of it will unbundle NIPOST. We also have the ACT of NIPOST going into an…