Geospatial data: African Policy makers must pay attention to core values says Olufuye – ITREALMS

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The chief executive officer of Kontemporary Konsulting and founder, Africa ICT Alliance (AfICTA), Dr Jimson Olufuye, has called on African policy makers to pay attention to core values to engender critical development for the continent, reports ITREALMS.

Speaking at the just concluded Africa Geospartial Data and Internet Conference in Accra, Ghana on Internet Governance for all round Development (IG4D), Olufuye said that shaping the Africa’s digital future requires that policy makers should pay serious attention to some core values such that geospatial among other developmental data to pave ways for open and transparency society.

This, he also said would obviously make access for innovation and creativity to thrive for the continuous growth and development of African economies.

“And for more jobs to be created for our large youth population,” he said.

By paying attention to policy making, Olufuye, who is one of the five global business representatives to the United Nations Commission for Science and Technology for Development Working Group on Enhanced Cooperation (WGEC 1.0 & 2.0) pointed out that it will propel the realization of the Sustainable Development Goals on the continent of Africa and bridge the digital divide.

On what is the nexus of geospatial data, the Internet Governance and the SDGs, Olufuye emphasized that geospatial data has everything to do with cadastral information of a country.

“It is a major national resource data which has the potential if well managed to be the fulcrum of prosperity of any nation,” he said.

Olufuye, who equally is the immediate past chair AfICTA, said that with available Internet tools, this resource could be better managed in an open, transparent and accountable manner for the benefit of the people.

“So, the nexus of geospatial data and Internet Governance is the values that drive them to enable benefits for all,” he said, stressing that these values include openness, transparency, inclusivity, collaboration, effectiveness, sustainability, responsiveness, peace, trust to name a few.

With the holistic use of geospatial data engendered by Internet Governance principles, he said, it would be possible that citizens could derive better values for their land thereby boosting their purchasing power with the attendant eradication of poverty, hunger, ill-health, illiteracy, gender inequality, and clean water and sanitation would be available.

“Goal 15: Life on Land and goal 17: Stronger stakeholder Partnership are benefits that would also result in proactive geospatial data governance,” he submitted.

Chuks Egbuna/Editor

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Yellow Dot launches Onidiri for hair-makers - ITREALMS

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The Yellow Dot Limited was recently launched amidst glitz and glamour over the weekend, as the company screened the first movie from its stable, Onidiri, a short movie on the hair-maker that took guests down memory lane, reports ITREALMS.

The occasion was graced by stakeholders, family and friends, including the Ooni of Ife, Oba Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, who was the special guest of honour.

Yellow Dot was founded in 2013 by Bukola Bolarinde, an architect and self-taught artist whose tapestry traverses the Oil&Gas industry, Banking and Finance, as well as Information Technology. The company was incorporated to promote home-grown talents, artistes, original content creation and development as well as TV and Film production.

Speaking at the launch, Founder and CEO of Yellow Dot Limited, Bukola Bolarinde said: “Our vision is to create an enabling environment for a pool of creative minds and talents from diverse fields to hone their skills, master their craft and impact their chosen industry and the world at large.”

In addition to creating the right atmosphere for budding artists, Yellow Dot also seeks to empower upcoming undiscovered talents by embarking on noble projects and engagements designed to create the right platforms from which they can be launched.

As testament to their creative content development skills, Onidiri, a short movie written and produced by Yellow Dot, was screened to the delight of guests. Onidiri tells a tale experienced by many Nigerian women way back when they were children. A tale about hair-making days and the first baptism of the Fulani nomads, whose wives were adept at hair-making but who left indelible memories of the experience in the minds of young girls.

Yellow Dot currently represents seasoned writers and producers, two photographers, two professional dancers, three artists and six actors, including Big Brother Africa’s Bamike Olawunmi, aka Bam Bam and Tope Teddy Adenibuyam aka Teddy A, both of who wrote and recorded the movies original soundtrack.

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