“ A culture of entrepreneurship is growing in sub Saharan Africa, with indicators related to entrepreneurial motivations at least on par with or higher than global peers. However, despite those positive signs, the business landscape in Sub-Saharan Africa provides a number of challenges that prospective entrepreneurs must transcend. ’’-Malik Fal, Managing Director, Omidyar Network…
Africa is experiencing a technological surge and it is having a dramatic effect on education throughout the Continent. Tech hubs are blossoming, new mobile devices and apps are being designed and produced in Africa, by Africans, and Africa’s eLearning market is now the fastest-growing in the world. With self-paced eLearning revenues forecast to double…
The Young Innovators Competition seeks to foster innovative ideas amongst the next generation of social entrepreneurs working to change the world through technology. It is open to any young person between the ages of 18 and 26 with an original solution to one of the six Global Challenges. -Improve employment opportunities for young people…
Women in Technology in Nigeria (WITIN) will join the world to mark the International Girls in ICT day on 25th of April,2013.This is an initiative of the International Telecommunications Union(ITU) to advance a universal environment that empowers and encourages girls and young women to pick up careers in the growing information and communication technologies…
Omidyar Network is convening some of Nigeria’s distinguished business, government and thought leaders to examine the state of entrepreneurship in Africa and share insights on changes needed to foster high-impact entrepreneurship nationally and across the continent. It is our pleasure to invite you to this special forum. In 2012, Omidyar Network launched the Accelerating Entrepreneurship…
The recently released information by the International Data Corporation (IDC)-the premier global provider of market intelligence, advisory services, and events for the information technology, telecommunications, and consumer technology markets says Mobile publishers such as Facebook, Pandora, and Twitter are rapidly taking over the mobile display advertising market in the United States. Where in past years,…
Last time we introduced Hipingg.com-a fast growing Photo sharing website with a user base of over 25,000 and mostly used my young Nigerians to share their excitement and photo experiences with friends and families.We learnt that they have added a new+ interesting feature -the Photo Collage. Speaking to us on it,the young Prudence Okoilu,…
A memorandum of understanding (MoU), a document describing a bilateral agreement, was signed recently between eI4Africa and iMENTORS indicating an intended common line of action. The two projects have a common interest in a close cooperation in order to achieve their respective objectives and promote the adoption of consolidated standards in the e-Infrastructure with…
The bi-annual gathering of Creative Commons friends and family, will officially be held in Buenos Aires from 21-24 August, co-hosted by Creative Commons affiliates, Fundación Vía Libre and Wikimedia Argentina. Creative Commons is a non-profit organization headquartered in Mountain View, California, United States devoted to expanding the range of creative works available for others to…
Join Nigeria’s finest Tech companies, start-ups and developers as they talk about their APIs and why APIs are the future of the internet and sporadic web/mobile technology growth in Nigeria. Its a 2hour (9am to 11am) breakfast meetup of top tech start-ups in Nigeria at Rodizzio, tomorrow 10th April 2013. Join this team of young minds who have implemented…
If you are a student in any Nigerian university and you want to become a Google Student Ambassador in your school,register for the program here.We learnt that the registration will end on the 11th of April,2013. The Google Student Ambassador Program is an opportunity for students to act as liaisons between Google and their…
This morning we learnt from Nigeria Communications Week that the Internet eXchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN), is collaborating with the Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), managers of Nigeria’s country code Top Level Domain, .ng, to organise Local Internet Content Forum. According to statement signed by Muhammed Rudman, managing director and chief executive officer, IXPN…
The National Finals Nigeria for the Microsoft/Nokia Imagine cup competition holds in Lagos,Nigeria.The Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition,where innovative students use their imagination and passion to create technology solutions with Microsoft resources. Over the past ten years, more than 1.65 million students from more than 190 countries have participated…
All Amber Uk, the organizers of Mobile Web Africa conferences are set with the West Africa edition of the event-The Mobile Web West Africa conference 2013.The event which has positioned itself as a leading mobile focused event in the region will be held from May 7th-10 in Lagos, Nigeria. Speaking about this year’s conference, the…
As humans thrive in their ecosystem with physical and biological factors so are businesses. A healthy environment promotes entrepreneurship. For a developing country like Nigeria, am sure everyone knows that entrepreneurship is the way to go because it has the potentials to create jobs, boost the growth of our GDP and then impact on the…
Things are really changing so fast in the Technology ecosystem all over the world and i think Nigeria is beginning to be more relevant than before in the scheme of things.In this invitation from Oracle,Oracle is set to unveil her New SPARC Servers with the world’s fastest Processor.According to Oracle the breakthrough speed and power…
Invited by Sony to be at the unveiling of the latest smartphone introduced in the Nigerian market wasn’t the attraction,we have been at several of such unveiling, i was so curious to see what Sony Mobile communications, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation, a leading global innovator of audio, video, game, communications, key device and information…
Nokia recently announced the appointment of Nick Imudia as Managing Director for its West and Central Africa operations.Covering a territory that includes Nigeria, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Cameroon,Liberia, Chad, Niger, Benin and Togo, Imudia will be based in the Nokia office in Lagos. Nick Imudia joined Nokia in 1998 and has held several senior positions within…
Oracle has established an aggressive integration strategy with the goal of unification across its Oracle Social Relationship Management Suite and with key Oracle enterprise applications. Oracle Social Relationship Management is the latest evolution in Oracle’s strategy of socially enabling the enterprise. The industry’s first unified, end-to-end social management solution for the enterprise was unveiled today…
Latest Cyber Security Software Developed in UK by Assuria Limited and exported worldwide and brought to Nigeria by her Partner/Distributor-Tolvoks Nigeria Limited. Assuria limited have over 250 customers in the US, South America, Europe, Mid. East, Asia and also have sales partner in more than 30 countries including Africa. Assuria supplies its SIEM technology…
The Diageo Africa Business Reporting Awards 2013 are already attracting high-quality entries from the best journalists around the world. The Awards celebrate their ten-year anniversary in 2013 and will once again showcase the most influential and innovative journalism from and about Africa. All journalists, writers, photographers, reporters and media houses are encouraged to apply as…
Acer, a leading global manufacturer of Information and Communication Technology products, has announced plans to strengthen relationship with her channel partners in Nigeria with a view to increasing her market share in the country’s growing IT market. According to Mr. Amin Mortazavi, Acer Vice President, Middle East and Africa, during a working visit to the…
As the exploitation of vulnerabilities specific to country-code top-level domain (ccTLD) registries has become an increasingly common problem, especially in relatively small markets around the world. A ccTLD is an internet domain registry generally used or reserved for a country, a sovereign state, or a dependent territory, such as .co.uk (for United Kingdom) or .fr…
A press statement reaching us says Blackberry and the Lagos State Innovation Advisory Council have today signed a Letter of Intent outlining their intention to build a BlackBerry Apps Lab in Lagos. Commenting on the agreement, Managing Director for West, East and Central Africa Waldi Wepener said: “With over 250 Nigerian developed applications already available…
BlackBerry yesterday officially launched its next-generation platform to Nigerian customers with the sleek Z10 smartphone, which is now available in black and white from carriers Etisalat, Glo, Airtel and MTN Nigeria and at authorized retail outlets through distributors EMS and Brightstar. The press statement issued at the event says the BlackBerry World storefront currently…
Ten years ago, the representatives of the peoples of the world, assembled in Geneva in 2003 and in Tunis in 2005 for the first and second phases of the World Summit on the Information Society adopted a common vision of the Information Society, identified its key principles and outlined the main challenges towards an…
If am writing this article with reference to customer service and experience in developed countries, I will probably not start this way. Each time I hear most companies and organizations especially the banks in Nigeria talk about customer service and customer service day, I don’t ever take them seriously because am yet to see any…
Just few weeks ago Blackberry launched two Phones-the Z10 and the Q10 riding on the new Platform 10. Two days ago BlackBerry officially announced the new BlackBerry® Z10 smartphone is launching in Nigeria. The BlackBerry Z10,powered by BlackBerry® 10, will come in black and white and will be available from Friday 1st March from carriers…
The Student Research Showcase is an innovative web-based competition which affords a great opportunity for students to compete in an international event without paying expensive travel costs. Students are invited to submit project descriptions for consideration to present.Judging categories include Behavioral Sciences, Biochemistry, Cellular & Molecular Biology, Chemistry, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology, Engineering, Environmental Sciences, Geo-Sciences,…
All is now set for the two-day 2013 edition of the Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D), holding at the Welcome Centre Hotels, Lagos between March 7 and 8 under the chairmanship of the chief executive, Condata Systems and former President, Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), Dr. Chris Nwannenna. Executive Director, Operations at…