Call it information poverty: individuals and communities cut off from resources that could dramatically improve their living standards because communications connectivity is absent or limited or expensive. Denied access to knowhow, or even market price data to sell their produce, they are stymied and trapped in deprivation. In developing countries, information poverty rapidly becomes actual…
Data Protection and Financial institutions With the introduction of online services, financial institutions have made it more convenient for customers to access their accounts. It is to be noted however that prior to online accounts being created, customers need to provide these institutions with their personal information such that they can process, transmit and store…
Over the last decade, identity theft has become one of the fastest growing global crimes. This can be attributed to a number of reasons: • Huge margins for little effort and risk on the part of criminals • Inadequate legislation or punishment to deter identity thieves • Organisations not deploying appropriate security measures • People…
Celebrating the world’s Youngest Microsoft Certified Professionals (MCPs) Trained at New Horizons, Nigeria In the world today, information and communications technology (ICT)has become the driver of world economy, this is because we are in the era of knowledge based, we have passed the industrial age, the Agricultural age and what have you. Frankly speaking the…
With the recent economic recession that took the world by surprise and the gradual recovery of economies, several questions begin to come to mind especially as a Nigerian and an Abian in particular. One of such questions is; what is Abia State of Nigeria known for? Where are we politically, socially, economically and even culturally…
An Address by Engr. Titi Omo-Ettu, President, ATCON at the WAFICT Conference/Exhibition in Lagos. We are once again opportune to be part of another session of the WAFICT Exhibition/Conference. The timing is particularly significant given that our industry is experiencing considerable transformation. Change is afoot at the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC; as is the reality…
Being a paper presented by Dr Jimson Olufuye, ITAN President and Board member WITSA at the 2010 eNigeria Conference with the theme: Nigeria’s ICT4D Plan and Global e-Payment Adoption Ranking: Implications for Vision 20-2020.
Our Association’s attention has been drawn to a recent news report that Globacom – a telecommunications company and Nigeria’s Second National Operator – is contemplating withdrawing its business activities from Ghana for reasons of sabotage and vandalism of its infrastructure and challenges to its investment believed to be perpetrated by some local interests in that…
Do you know that your employees are using Facebook during the business/working hours even when it is prohibited at your workplace? Facebook has suddenly become a website that people especially the young people cannot do without (Even our President wants to engage the youths on Facebook). Many have argued that Facebook is a major distraction…
Now, to the certification semantics. Let’s start from networking because I am a Cisco trained network engineer. The CCNA is a very good entry level certification and if you study for it properly you will have a very solid understanding of lower level networking which is essential to do any admin job. The nice part…
The Nigeria Digital Sense Africa forum would take place tomorrow Friday, April 16 at Golden Gates restuarant, Ikoyi, Lagos by 9am.
WiMAXForum 2010 June 15 & 16, 2010 in Lagos 1. Forum Objective The WimaxForum 2010 is an international Event. It aims to harness the technical and commercial resources, expertise, technologies and opportunities available in Nigeria in a bid to stimulate investment and encourage best business practices.
The Nigeria Software Challenge-Part 1 Addressing the “Grand Challenge” with a “Grand Strategy” Why We Need A National Software Strategy/Policy Today, Software is recognized as the “critical national infrastructure” (CNI) within the global critical infrastructure (GCI). It is therefore the new centre of gravity of human life and global economy. Conventional wisdom and new…
Review of “e-Knowledge – Time is Running Out!” a compendium of the works of Mr. Chris Uwaje By titi omo-ettu [email protected] Institute of International Affairs, Kofo Abayomi Road, Victoria Island, Lagos. March 30, 2010
What is Java? If you have been hearing the buzz of this technology and wondering what its all about, Java can be used to describe the Java programming language as well as the Java Platform. As a Programming language it is easy to use, a pace-setter (infact C-sharp was modelled after it.),and can be…
DR ERNEST NDUKWE, SAM AMUKA, PAT UTOMI, JUBRIL MARTINS-KUYE, BANIGO, JIM OVIA, ABATI, LEO STAN, MADUKA, OKOIGUN FOR UWAJE’s BOOK LAUNCH The Oracle Speaks, as the long awaited book “e-Knowledge – Time is Running Out” is launched! All roads lead to the Nigerian Institute of International Affairs next week Tuesday, March 30, 2010 to receive…
Nigeria, in coming months will join the likes of Kenya where Mobile Money is changing the way people access financial services. More than 8 million people are actively served by the MPESA MMT System in Kenya alone and 15 percent of the GDP passes through the system.With this great opportunity exit in Mobile Money…
This is an era of knowledge –based economy; the Internet has become a veritable tool for business, communication and social empowerment. Nigerians when it comes to Internet are known as people that use the Internet for fraudulent purposes, hence the name Nigerian scam.
“Digital inclusion brings about a level playing field. It means that the little girl in a village in Nigeria can get information for her research project as a little girl in Washington or China.”- Professor Turner Isoun. Former Minister of Science and Technology The term digital divide according to Wikipedia refers to the gap…
Newton’s First Law of Motion states that an object at rest tends to stay at rest, and an object at motion tends to stay in motion until acted upon by an external force. This is true of careers as well, including yours. Where do you want your IT career to be in one year? Do…
Telecommunications and banking in any economy can be likened to siamese twins. This is because there is a symbiotic, interdependent and self-reinforcing relationship between both sectors as they individually and jointly stimulate as well drive, the economy. So when global telecom players tried to convince us of their immunity, given what we knew was going…
As 2010 is just around the corner with great opportunities embedded in renewed challenges, financial and business experts all over the world predict a slow recovery for businesses from recession, which means the way business will be done this time will have to change for effective and quick recovery from the economic meltdown For Nigeria,…
Africa is leading the world in Mobile commerce and payment with active deployments all across the continent. M-PESA is now referred to as the most successful of all with more than 7 million subscribers in Kenya alone. Many look alike deployments are either in active roll outs or in the offing.
I do find the feature in Chrome of it launching each tab in a separate process to be nifty, but how often does Firefox crash? How often do people surf processor intensive/memory intensive web sites? Not very often-that single cool feature is not enough to make people fall in love with Chrome. I used Opera…
A browser is an application program that provides a way to look at and interact with all the information on the World Wide Web.
Every device that connects to the Internet needs an address. But those addresses are rapidly being depleted. As unlikely as that may seem, the system put in place in 1977 assumed that four billion separate addresses on the network would be more than sufficient.
TECHNICAL, LEGAL, AND OPERATIONAL CHALLENGES We have entered the Information Age, where information technologies have been integrated into virtually every aspect of business and society. This integration is posing new challenges for all of us in law enforcement. Today, there are critical challenges, seeing computers being used for criminal behavior in three major ways. …
The name Tim Berners-Lee may not ring a bell to the casual internet user neither will the famous quote by one of mankind’s most famous innovators describing the internet “turning point in societal evolution depends not only on the technology but also how we use it.” Furthermore, “the web gives us lots more choices about…
2.2 CATEGORIES OF CYBER THREATS The following are some of the categories of cyber threats that we confront today include, but not limited to: Insiders, Hackers (or “crackers”), “Hacktivism.” Or Political Hacking, Criminal Groups, The Phonemasters’, Internet Fraud, Foreign intelligence services. Information Warfare, Virus Writers, Internet Fraud, Identity Theft, Child Pornography, Terrorists Etc.
The“Bermuda Declaration” for the ICT sector ____ “As we are all witnessing the world is going through a revolution driven by IT. Business, government, education, the media – all are being transformed by the Internet, wireless telephone, access to powerful yet inexpensive computing technology, cable and satellite television, and other elements of the new…