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Monday, June 11, 2018

NIGF2018 gets date @Yar’Adua centre Abuja

The Multi-stakeholders Advisory Group (MAG) of the Nigeria InternetGovernance Forum (NIGF) has announced the dates for its 2018 edition slated to take place at the Shehu Musa Yar’Adua Conference Center on July 3rd, this year, reports ITRealms.

The two-day forum scheduled for July 2-3, ITRealms gathered has the theme as ‘‘Internet as Enabler for Good Governance’’ with the first day dedicated to the pre-NIGF Youths Workshop with the subtheme “Internet for Opportunities, Value Creation and Empowerment.”

The NIGF-MAG, ITRealms also gathered, comprised of Federal Ministry of Communications (MoC), National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), DigitalSENSE Africa Media,  Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), Internet Society Nigeria Chapter (ISOC),  Creative Technology Development International (CTDL), and Global Network for Cybersolution (GNC), among other the Internet community stakeholders.

ITRealms equally reports that the Honourable Minster of Communications, Barrister Abdur-Raheem Adebayo Shittu, would be the Special Guest of Honour, and he will declare the forum open.

The pre-NIGF Youths Workshop, ITRealms further gathered, would be chaired by the Executive Commissioner for Stakeholders at NCC, Mr. Sunday Dare.


The organisers, ITRealms reports, said NIGF 2018 is to facilitate stakeholders’ intervention on the use of Internet for the enthronement of good governance for national economic recovery; stimulate the Internet community open participation in a regional and global Internet policy dialogue on emerging Internet issues; and engage stakeholders toward effective monitoring of the implementation of National Economic & Growth Plan and Sustainable Development Goals.

Uboshe Uboshe/ED, Ops

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