Reshaping RDRS and geopolitics of data: Why global south’s voice matters by Remmy Nweke - WeekendDigits@ITREALMS

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The RDRS must not sideline the Global South. REMMY NWEKE in this edition of WeekendDigits@ITREALMS urges ICANN to define 'Legitimate Interest' for local enforcement, protect digital rights, and ensure operational equity for African registries.

Defining future Internet:
The global architecture of the internet is constantly being reformed, and seldom has that reform been more critical than in the ongoing debate at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) community over how to access nonpublic domain registration data. 

The proposed solution, the Registration Data Request Service (RDRS), is intended to create a predictable and scalable pathway for legitimate data access in a world dominated by privacy regulations like the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) in the European Union (EU).

Missing Footage: Why digital evidence matters in aviation disputes - ITREALMS

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The recent altercation on an Ibom Air flight, which led to the controversial remand of passenger Comfort Emmanson at Kirikiri, has sparked a heated debate across Nigeria. 

The viral videos and passionate social media posts have painted a picture of a flight attendant assault, but conflicting accounts from other passengers have cast a shadow of doubt on the official narrative. 

Telecom tariff increase reversal: Matters arising by Elvis Eromosele - ITREALMS

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The Nigerian telecommunications sector has remained, perhaps, the most dynamic section of the economy for over two decades. It is a major newsmaker. One day it is news for new milestones, new technologies and new vistas and the next day regulatory restrictions, multiple taxations by the government and its agents or else disruption of service by the same. It is a real roller-coaster ride.

Yet, the sector has proven resilient, even before resilience was a thing. To get to where it is today, the players have invested heavily, struggled with and overcame myriads of obstacles and continue to stretch to do new and exciting things. It strives to keep abreast of the latest development across the globe.

Why FirstBank Fintech Summit 3.0 matters - ITREALMS.

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Leading financial services provider, First Bank of Nigeria Limited has adduced reasons why it hosted the third edition of annual Fintech summit with the theme: Banking + Tech = Solving Real Problems, reports ITREALMS. 

Adducing these reasons on Wednesday in Lagos, the Deputy Managing Director, First Bank of Nigeria Limited, Gbenga Shobo, said, “Our Fintech Summit 3.0 was convened to set the tone for discussions that promote disruptions in the digital space, especially in the financial industry, as we recognise the opportunities for inclusive growth and influence of Fintech not just in banking but also business operations across all industries." 

The 2019 edition of Fintech summit, he said, built on the successes achieved in the last two editions.

“FirstBank in the last few years, has used technology to deliver solutions to promote financial inclusion. With over 33,000 Firstmonie Agents in 36 states doing over N2 trillion worth of transactions. We are reducing poverty with our Agency Banking footprint. 

"Our Firstmobile application has become the foremost mobile banking application in the country with over 3 million users doing over 14 million transactions monthly. It is one of the major gateways for Financial Inclusion where everyone can download the app and open an account at their own convenience! This was not the case a few years ago. 

"Our USSD channel, *894#, is also solving Financial Exclusion problems for those who do not have easy access to internet data. With over 8 million users today, transactions worth over N4 trillion have been consummated using this channel," he pointed out.

The 2019 summit, ITREALMS reports came with a conference and panel sessions made up of tech experts, start- ups, regulators and other stakeholders to deliberate pressing issues, trends and upgrades in the application of technology in the financial services industry, with Victor Asemota, Founder, Swifta Systems & Services as the keynote speaker.

With the evolution that has taken place in the financial services industry in recent times, especially through the advent of technological inclusion in business operations across all industries, this year’s event focused on how technology can aid the solving of large scale societal problems within the context of financial services in Nigeria. The event cuts across multiple panel sessions to deliberate issues and prospects in the business management across the financial technology ecosystem with a view to having participants exposed to the trajectory of current and future opportunities in the Fintech ecosystem.

The panel sessions comprised experts with over two hundred combined years of experience in the Financial and Technological Industry space to deliberate on topical issues in today’s technologically driven business world. Topical issues to be discussed are: Solving Business Problems; Solving Regulatory, Security & Legal Problems and Solving Lifestyle Problems.

Amongst the FirstBank team of speakers and moderators are Folake Ani-Mumuney, Group Head, Marketing & Corporate Communications; Olayinka Shittu, Chief Transformation Officer,

Oluwatoyin Aina, Group Head, Energy Downstream & Int. Oil Trading; and Taiwo Shonekan, Head, Customer Experience & Value Management.

Debo Odunlana, CEO, Doctoora Health; Damilola Emuze, COO/Co-Founder, Scholarx; Edward Popoola, CTO/Co-Founder, Cowrywise and Chinedu Azodoh, Chief Technology Officer, Max.Ng are the panelists in the Solving Lifestyle Problems session.

The Solving Business Problems panel session include Victor Asemota, Founder, Swifta Systems & Services; Lola Ekugo, Head, Digital Innovation Lab, FirstBank; Akindele Phillips, CFO/Co-Founder, Farmcrowdy; Deepankar Rustagi, CEO/Founder, Vconnect & Omnibiz and Dayo Ademola, Head of Innovation, EFInA.

The panelists in the Solving Regulatory, Security & Legal Problems are the Sam Okojere, Director, Payment System Management Dept, CBN; Tosin Faniro-Dada, Head, Startups (Lagos Innovates), LSETF; Odunoluwa Longe, Co-Founder, DIY-Law & The Longe Practice; Bunmi Akinyemiju, CEO, Venture Garden Group and Harrison Nnaji, Chief Information Security Officer, FirstBank.

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Pix: Callistus Obetta, Group Executive, Technology & Services, FirstBank; Gbenga Shobo, Deputy Managing Director, FirstBank; Victor Asemota, Founder, Swifta Systems & Services and Keynote Speaker at the event (FirstBank FinTech Summit 3.0); Adesola Adeduntan, Chief Executive Officer, FirstBank and Abdullahi Ibrahim, Executive Director, Public Sector FirstBank at the FirstBank FinTech Summit 3.0 held in Lagos Wednesday.

Online visibility matters a great deal - PwC

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The Lead, Tax, Technology and Innovation unit at the Price waterhouse Copper (PwC Nigeria), Mr. Victor Olorunfemi, has declared that at this era of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) online visibility matters a great deal, reports ITRealms.

“In this age of digital revolutions and globalisation, online visibility matters a great deal,” he asserted, at the 2016 one-day Capability Enhancement Workshop for journalists in Lagos hosted by PwC Nigeria on the theme: “Technology and Journalism.”

He noted that it has become very easy to classify everyone as a ‘journalist’ regardless of the quality of their content and this has become prevalent in the face of authentic journalists inability to master the art of online visibility, resulting in society receiving garbage as information.

“The public will be perpetually stuffed with garbage information to society’s detriment,” he lamented.

Olorunfemi stressed that online visibility requires a quick self-check, mostly by online media practitioners beginning with “How strong is your online profile?”

He told ITRealms, this could be done by looking up one’s name on the internet on any of the search engines including Google and Bing among others.

“What comes up first? Your profile? Or your name sake’s?” he asked, but quickly added that usually the top results arise from social media, Wikipedia and online publications.

He also made a case for those practicing trade online to have accounts on various social media platforms and be mindful of how to use them.

“What can a stranger in Singapore find out about you or your work from the internet? • How credible do you appear,” Olorunfemi wondered, pointing out that perception is a powerful force that is not too difficult to build and project.

As said by him, branding a company online, for instance, cannot be distanced from the social media, by way of making oneself and company more visible with the platforms around them.

This, he said, is because of the underlining advantages attached to these platforms if well used such as LinkedIn which is known with its professionals, has the capacity to stand you out peers.

For the journalists, he explained that LinkedIn offers media practitioners premium account after completing a given survey in profile, post and shares, and similar advantages could be taken on Facebook, Twitter, Youtube, Google+, Instagram, Medium and Quora.

He further explained that with Facebook one could easily showcase a profile, status updates, pages or groups, just as Twitter showcases bio, tweets, retweets and lately likes, even as YouTube primarily offers videos, Google+ takes on profile, communities, posts, whereas the Medium affords individuals to post articles; the Quora enables responses to questions, comments and Instagram is a microblog which usually is photo-driven.

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Diplo to host webinar on Netmundial'14

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Diplo Foundation has announced the intention to host web seminar (webinar) on Netmundial with people that matters as the subject gains momentum, ITRealms reports.

According to Mrs. Stephanie Borg Psaila of Diplo's Internet Governance (IG) webinars team told ITRealms that as part of the March Internet governance webinar, arrangement has been concluded to focus on the upcoming NETmundial slated to hold in Brazil.

Also, she invited participants to the webinar on Friday 28th March at 14h UTC/GMT, on the Global Multistakeholder Meeting on the Future of Internet Governance (NETmundial), which is taking place in Brazil in April.

Raúl Echeberría, executive director of LACNIC and co-chair of NETmundial’s Executive Multistakeholder Committee, and Rodrigo de la Parra, ICANN vice-president, Stakeholder Engagement, Latin America and the Caribbean, she said, would update the IG community with developments in Latin America in the preparation for NETmundial.

Further, she said to ITRealms that the webinar would address the following, among other aspects: “What can we expect from NETmundial in terms of a tangible outcome? With various IG bodies engaged in the process, how can the IG community participate in the run-up to the meeting and during the meeting itself? Based on the contributions received, what are the top three items on NETmundial’s agenda? What type of ‘Latin American’ flavour can we expect at NETmundial (issues, priorities and actors)?”

She explained to ITRealms that to participate, potential participate would fill in the registration form though attendance is free but registration is required.

“The link to join the webinar will be e-mailed on the day, shortly before the start of the webinar. Participants will be able to discuss the topic with the presenters and other participants present for the webinar,” she submitted.

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