Twenty-four people who designed and advanced the Internet as the global, world-changing platform that it is today will be inducted into the Internet Hall of Fame. The Internet Hall of Fame was launched in 2012 by the Internet Society and this year’s ceremony will be held in Hong Kong today 8 April. Representing 13 countries,…
Ericsson recently announced the semi-finalists for the annual Ericsson Application Awards with Team SOP from Nigeria and Team WorkMode from South Africa named as semi-finalists in the company category and the student category respectively. Team SOP developed an application that allows users to receive push notifications on availability and analytics on electricity in their area….
GSF Global Accelerator a leading tech Accelerator based in India is extending her program from April to include African Start-ups. This is a 13 week program to foster innovation in the fast growing global digital economy. It aims to provide select start-ups with unparalleled access to venture and business networks, personalized & intensive…
Innovation forum 2014 is set to provide answers as to how ICT-Led Innovation can drive competitiveness and growth in Agriculture, Education, Employment and Job creation in Nigeria. In line with the overall vision to foster innovation in Nigeria, the Cross River State Government in partnership with leading tech organizations-Microsoft and Nokia in collaboration…
In an unstructured Technology market like Nigeria,we are seeing several businesses coming out very successful in distribution and sales of tech products.One of such success stories is from Slot Systems limited popularly called Slot, a leading company in the distribution and sale of original mobile Phones and devices in Nigeria who celebrated her 15…
I am of the opinion that perhaps the ugly, unfortunate and regrettable incident where many young Nigerians lost their lives in a stampede during the Nigerian Immigration Service recruitment exercise could have been avoided if the government had taken youth unemployment a bit more seriously and as a top priority over the years….
Mr. Olusegun Aganga, Nigeria’s Federal Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment will keynote the inaugural Angel Fair West Africa (AFWA) which is bringing together entrepreneurial businesses and active investors from across Africa to “do deals” at the Intercontinental Hotel, Lagos on Sunday 30th and Monday 31st March 2014. “To have the Minister Aganga keynote…
• The Philips Africa Innovation Hub in Kenya will be the center for developing innovations “in Africa-for Africa” in the areas of healthcare, lighting and healthy living • Hub underlines Philips’ commitment to invest in Africa and provide Africa-relevant innovations to address key challenges facing the continent We got this interesting news…
Technology and innovation are driving many economies in no small measure. According to the Journal for Sustainable Development (vol. 4 no. 6, December 2011) entrepreneurship generally and technological entrepreneurship in particular are now considered as the engine for economic development. Most developed and emerging economies and developing countries have adopted Technology Business Incubation to…
“For developing countries in Africa like Nigeria, not only our mobile phones should be Smart, our cities ought to be smart too, for me this is the challenge of the government at different levels” While many cities are becoming ‘smart’ enabling development that makes life easy for her people to move around from…
By VARAIDZO AUDREY MURERIWA Editor’s note: This post by Varaidzo Audrey Mureriwa first appeared as part of the “Technology in Africa – 2014 Digest”It is available as a FREE eBook for download here The story of Africa’s booming economic growth has dominated the press for a while. Africa is the fastest growing…
More than ever before, Africans are turning to ICT-supported learning to grow their economies. In 2013, the eLearning Africa Report found that 40% of African technology-assisted learning professionals were using ICTs specifically for skills training, up from 18% the previous year. The benefit of ICT-supported learning is that it allows employers to provide…
As the demand from Sub-Saharan African countries for online training steadily grows, the number of online courses has increased by 390% over the past 5 years,The United Nations Institute for Training and Research (UNITAR) has just launched the 2014 edition of the online training courses in financial management,international trade and intellectual property. These courses…
Over the years,the Nigerian electoral processes have been marred with several irregularities that make for very undemocratic nature of electing her rulers.The people’s choices are in most cases not reflected in the results announced at the end of elections in Nigeria.Just as the 2015 elections are close,it becomes very important that ways are…
Often times this group of professionals are less honoured, remunerated and rewarded in the society despite the fact that their role in the society is very key. The journalists play very vital part in the growth and development of every nation. We see in western world they are feared, revered, well respected and are…
Nigeria no doubt is in dire need of medical interventions. From the colleague who died of the simplest medical condition, to the random accident victim who didn’t even make it to the hospital before they gave up, everyone has directly or indirectly experienced poor medical attention.Today we see new technologies and the mobile devices…
We bring to you this exciting report that MTN Nigeria,a leading Telecommunications company in Nigeria is set to bring Steve Wozniak,who co-founded Apple, the most valuable company in the world with late Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. Steve Woznaik will be speaking at the MTN Leadership Seminar in Nigeria between March 4 and 5…
Entries to the 2014 African Blogger Awards, the continent’s very first awards programme that measures online and social influencers’ reach and influence through data analysis, are open to bloggers, Instagrammers, Tweeters and YouTubers across Africa. The Awards have been divided into 36 categories, providing the opportunity for influencers on these platforms to…
Synclie applies sophisticated automatic listening logic to television content recognition, pulls and pushes contextual and actionable content and ad serving through social persona targeting and natural language processing patented AJ technologies that allow brands and their agencies to launch interest and demographically targeted campaigns and get real results to a wider engaged audience….
Nokia recently announced at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the release of her 3 Android powered smartphones under the Nokia X series. Analysts are beginning to say that this long awaited move might be a comeback for the Nokia brand. It is interesting to note that few years ago especially in emerging markets…
We are pleased to announce that EduNet 2014 will be hosted by the ICT Centre of Obafemi Awolowo University and theInstitute for Entrepreneurship Studies(IFEDS)of Obafemi Awolowo University Nigeria in collaboration with Tel Aviv University Entrepreneurship Centre (StarTAU), Israel. Theme: Fostering Technology Entrepreneurship in Nigerian Universities Date: May 20-22, 2014 Venue: Obafemi Awolowo University,…
Erudite scholar and a past president of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), Prof. Charles Uwadia has accepted to preside over the Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum (NDSF) on Internet Governance for Development 2014. Confirming this to newsmen in Lagos, the Executive Director, Operations at DigitalSENSE Africa Media group, the organizers of the event, Mrs. Nkemdilim Nweke,…
We got this report from Cyberschuulnews that the University of Lagos has commissioned a high speed internet access infrastructure under a partnership with MainOne Ltd on whose initiative the project was conceived.The infrastructure was commissioned to service on February 1,2014. In less than three years, MainOne has emerged the preferred provider of bandwidth connectivity…
Programos Foundation Nigeria in collaboration with the International Association of African Non-Governmental Organisations with support from the Digital Empowerment Foundation (DEF) India and Public Interest Registry, will host an eNGO workshop for 100 Nigerian based grassroots NGOs. The workshop will focus on training the organisations on capacity building using information and Communications Technologies. The…
Last week we brought you a report on the launch of Lenovo Smartphones in Nigeria, Yesterday in Lagos at a well-attended event, Lenovo launched its smartphone portfolios in Nigeria .Nigerian consumers will be the first in Africa to get their hands on these seven models, including the flagship Vibe X smartphone which will…
Few days ago,Google publicly announced the winners of the 2013 Google Cloud Developers Challenge.As one of the judges for Sub Saharan Africa on the just concluded Cloud Challenge,It is really interesting to have seen the level of ingenuity shown by these young Africans in their applications.This shows that there is a huge opportunity…
It is of interest to know that such project is going on to map the Innovation Clusters in Nigeria.I found this recently and decided to share it here.This is a good step in the right direction for Nigeria and innovation. Executive Summary of the Project Information and communication technology (ICT) is…
JUMIA, one of the leading online retailers in Nigeria announces its new CEOs; Nicolas Martin and Jérémy Doutté. They will replace former Managing Directors, Tunde Kehinde and Raphael Afaedor, who decided to leave JUMIA Nigeria to start their own businesses according to reports from JUMIA Nigeria. The press report made available to…
We just received an invitation of the official Launch and presentation of Lenovo Smart phones in Nigeria for next week. Lenovo being a Multi-billion dollar technology company acquired IBM Computers some years ago. It is planning a great entry into the Nigerian Mobile market. During the event, Lenovo top executives will share Lenovo’s…
News reaching us from the African Press organization says that Heirs Holdings, the pan-African proprietary investment company founded by Tony O. Elumelu, CON, has announced its investment in US start-up Planet Labs’ innovative satellite manufacturing technology. Heirs Holdings is the only African investor in the project, which is based in San Francisco….