The duo of Dr. Chukwudozie Ezigbalike of the Economic
Community for Africa (ECA) and Ms Nnenna Nwakanma, the African Regional Coordinator for Web Foundation are to speak during a webinar on Africa Data
Consensus, reports ITRealms.
This is coming on the heels of the recent Data Revolution
forum in Africa held at the United Nations Conference Centre in Addis Ababa,
Ethopia.
ITRealms
gathered that the webinar slated for Wednesday, May 13, 2015 by 1pm Lagos time,
would explore the Africa Data Consensus by way of updating on the
implementation strategy being developed and answering all questions related to
data in Africa, and the Data Revolution on the continent generally.
Social media discussions on the webinar, ITRealms learnt would be aggregated on
hashtag #DataRevAfrica.
ITRealms notes
that Dr. Ezigbalike is the chief, Data Technology Section at United Nations
Economic Commission for Africa and has lots of experience on corporate
database, associated policy analysis, data dissemination to outside users;
corporate data analytics environment, with appropriate software tools; data
mining and specialized analytics and data and information products upon
request.
Nnenna Nwakanma, who leads the drafting committee on
DataRevAfrica, on the other hand is the Africa Regional Coordinator at The
World Wide Web Foundation, with expertise on the Information Society, Internet
for Development, ICT Policy, ICT4D, social networks, online communities, virtual
collaboration, outsourcing, free software and open source for African development,
rule of law, public education, and freedom of expression.
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