This year’s event will have in attendance, President Goodluck Jonathan as the Special Guest of honour just as renowned Nigerian lead concept Chevrolet Volt electric car designer, Jelani Aliyu has been confirmed to deliver the keynote address at the Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Abuja.
The Ag. Head of Corporate Strategy and Research, NITDA, Dr. Vincent Olatunji, said “One unique thing that will differentiate eNigeria 2104 from previous editions is the delivery of the Nigeria eGovernemnt Frame Work by the Korean official who have been partnering with the Federal Government and helping with developing the framework within the last one year, now the time is ready and it will be officially handed to Nigerians through NITDA at eNigeria 2014”.
Themed: “Creating Market Opportunities for Indigenous ICT Products and Services”. With the increasing interest and growing participation of more organisations at the event, Olatunji said that this year’s event will feature no fewer than 30 exhibitors will showcase their solutions, products and services. Adding that a number of companies that participated at GITEX 2014 in Dubai, have already confirmed their participation at eNigeria 2104, while some other companies that could not make it to GITEX 2014 have also confirmed participation.
For the first time since the inception of eNigeria, there will be an international participation this year following Nigeria’s involvement as Official Country Partner at GITEX 2104, with the agency’s confirmation that the World Trade Center, in Dubai has already shown interest to be part of eNigeria 2014.
According to NITDA, “Nihilent has been on a tour of states, local government, ministries, departments and agencies to evaluate and ascertain their level of ICT deployment for governance and administration and it impacts”.
There award will feature winners in five different categories which include The Best ICT Driven MDA, The Best ICT Driven State, Best Web Presence, The Best ICT Driven Local Government and The Best eGovernance Project (executed) and a Special Jury Award.
“This is good news for us, because when you have good innovation with the requisite entrepreneurship spirit to back it up, then accessing the financial support will be easy as NITDA has put in place modalities for venture capitals”.
Good innovators be given the opportunity to showcase their solutions and meet big players, including prospective investors in the industry who can invest in them, a process which may help us produced Nigeria’s owns Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and Larry Page.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Olabisi Olaleye
Quelle/Source: Daily Sun, 11.11.2014
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