Buhari leads FG delegation to eNigeria’19 - ITREALMS

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President Muhammadu Buhari has been confirmed to lead the Federal Government (FG) delegations to the 2019 e-Nigeria annual conference as the special guest of honour, reports ITREALMS.

Confirming this to ITREALMS, spokesperson to the Minister of Communications & Digital Economy, Mrs. Uwa Suleiman said, Buhari accepted and approved the invitation of the Minister, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) to serve as Special Guest of Honour, through a letter.

The confab scheduled to hold from Thursday, 28th to Saturday, 30th of November 2019 with the theme centred around: Digital Economy for a Digital Nigeria, she said, would be declared open by the President, with the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy as the Chief Host and Chief Convener, Director-General National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mr Kashif Inuwa Abdullahi.

They are expected to be joined by all the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of agencies under the Ministry’s purview will serve as co-hosts. 

These, she said, include the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta; Managing Director Galaxy Backbone PLC, Mr. Yusuf Kazaure; Managing Director Nigeria Communications Satelite (NIGCOMSAT), Dr Abimbola Alale; Acting Executive Secretary Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) Mr Ayuba Shuaibu; and the Post-Master General, Nigeria Postal Services (NIPOST) Barrister Adebisi Adegbuyi.

Also, she said the highlight of this year’s event, would be the formal public presentation for review, in line with the President’s directives, the draft document on the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy, in accordance the Ministry’s mandate.

The Minister has also constituted Central Working Committee (CWC), for e-Nigeria chaired by him, with NITDA as its secretariat and coordinator, while the Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) of Parastatals under the Ministry’s supervision serve as members.

Recall that the e-Nigeria Conference is the nation’s flagship IT Conference organized by the Federal Government and coordinated by NITDA, the Federal Government’s Information Technology (IT) develop arm, supervised by the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy.

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Adebayo Shittu leads speakers to eNigeria 2017

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The Minister of Communications, Barrister Abdur-Raheem Adebayo Shittu would today, lead speakers to the 2017 eNigeria conference, as its chief host, reports ITRealms.

Shittu, also would be joined by the Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, as the host and convener of eNigeria 2017.

For Pantami, other sub-themes include “Roadmap towards national ICT skills framework development; Positioning the nation to harvest value from emerging technologies; Improving the delivery of public services through ICT innovations; Indigenous ICT innovation management for national development;  and Demand shaping for local content promotion: entrepreneurial opportunities and regulatory challenges.”

Other speakers expected at the event include, Mr Adekunle Ajiboye, CEO of Ajimantics ltd Canada; Raul Kaidro, CEO, Raul Walter, Estonia; Managing Partner of Technology Advisors, Mr. Basil Udotai.

In addition, he listed the CEO of InfoGraphics Nigeria, Chinenye Mba-Uzoukwu; and the former Director of the United Nations Foundation’s Information & Communications Technology (ICT), Dr Ime Asangansi, among key speakers.

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Buhari to declare open eNigeria confab’17

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The president, Mohammadu Buhari, has been confirmed to declare open the 2017 eNigeria conference in Abuja, while the Minister of Justice, Abubakar Malami is to give the keynote, reports ITRealms.

Head, Corporate Affairs & External Relations at the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mrs. Hadiza Umar, disclosed this in a press statement made available to ITRealms at the weekend, saying that eNigeria is the no. 1 Information Technology Conference organised by NITDA in collaboration with relevant IT stakeholders from public, private sector as well as non-governmental organisations.

The 2017 theme, she said, is on the theme "Fostering Digital Economy through Local Content Development and Effective Regulations" will be declared open by His Excellency, President Mohammadu Buhari GCFR, President and Commander -in- Chief of the Armed Forces, Federal Republic of Nigeria, and the Attorney General of the Federation and Minister of Justice is the Keynote Speaker.

The event is eNigeria, she also said, involves conference, exhibition and award holding inside the International Conference Centre, Abuja from 7th to 9th of November, 2017, as President Buhari is to use the occasion to advance the agenda for local content and sectoral regulations as basis for Nigeria’s entry into the digital economy.

The 10th Edition of eNigeria 2017 will promote deliberations on how Nigeria could thicken the value of its policy thrust on local content in pursuit of a national economy that is less dependent on crude oil export.

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NITDA,Nihilent award-winners to be announced @ e-Nigeria Conference ‘15

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The winners of the 2015 joint NITDA & Nihilent awards winners will be announced on the 18^th of November, during the NITDA-Nihilent e-Governance Awards Ceremony as part of the e-Nigeria Conference, ITRealms reports.

Buoyed by the overwhelming response to the e-Governance Awards Program in 2014, NITDA has decided to make the Programme an annual affair and a permanent feature of the e-Nigeria Conference.

ITRealms gathered that the National Information Technology Development Agency(NITDA) and Nihilent, a global consulting and solutions integration Awards Committee team led by the Director General, Mr Peter Olu Jack will work closely over the next two months to formulate the program. The Awards Programme will comprise multiple phases in the run up to the final event.

The team proposes to finalize the Award Categories and criteria on the basis of which respondents will be assessed. The EoI forms will soon be made available on the official NITDA portal for access to potential respondents. The respondents will be required to submit their responses online.

Further, the e-Governance awards assessment team will visit project sites of identified entities to check the ground realities and interview the concerned Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Directors’ and other officials – all of which forms a part of the rigorous assessment process. The results of the assessment will be declared on the second week of November, 2015, ITRealms learnt.

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