The
Global Connectivity Index (GCI), a platform that partners with policymakers and
enterprise leaders to identify, harness, and create new digital economy
opportunities with the aim of building a better connected West Africa, has at
the Huawei Cloud Congress (HCC) West Africa 2015 in Lagos rated Nigeria 47th
out of 50 countries, as well as the highest number of internet users in Africa and
top three emerging broadband markets, ITRealms reports.
ITRealms gathered
that the survey rated Nigeria as having a small fixed base but huge potential
in the uptake of mobile products as she is one of the world's largest mobile
subscriber markets and offers impressive opportunities primarily in the mobile
broadband space, where rapid m-Commerce uptake is driving market growth.
President
of Huawei Western Africa Region, Mr. Peng Song, who announced the result said,
"Overall, the 2015 GCI shows that 20 per cent growth in Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) investment will increase a country’s GDP by 1
per cent. It also identifies five enablers of digital transformation – Data Centers,
Cloud Services, Big Data, Broadband, and the Internet of Things (IoTs). These
technologies represent the targets that stakeholders should focus their
investments on in order to most efficiently transform their economies for the
digital age."
Based
on the GCI findings, ITRealms gathered
that, the HCC came up with three commendations for a better connected West Africa;
to include increasing data centre investment, developing economies need to move
from investing in supply to building demand and learning from developing
countries’ success, to become leaders in GCI.
“Make
Information Technology (IT) simple, and make business agile. It is an amazing
era with rapid growth and data explosion. In this dynamic environment, Huawei
will continue to invest in IT industry, and will continue to emphasize on the
concept of being integrated, customer-centric and providing customers with
innovative, differentiated, leading-edge products and solutions," Song
said.
ITRealms learnt
that Huawei, which forecasts that by 2025, 100 billion connections will be
generated globally with 90 per cent of which will come from intelligent sensors,
also launched the FusionCloud Solution and OceanStor V3 Converged Storage
solutions at the Huawei Cloud Congress, where Accenture, Etisalat, Fidelity
Bank, Intel, SAP and other Huawei partners, shared the cases of deploying
Huawei enterprise business solutions to enable business success.
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Nsolibe/GEE
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