Today 358

Yesterday 897

All 39397014

Friday, 29.03.2024
eGovernment Forschung seit 2001 | eGovernment Research since 2001

The contributions of Globacom to the development of the telecoms sector in Nigeria, and the digitalisation of the West African region came to the fore at the third INDO-AFRICA ICT Expo, which ended in Lagos last week.

Giving the keynote address at the event, the Minister of Communications, Adebayo Shittu, said Nigeria had confidence in its home-grown industries and would, therefore, continue to give them preference over foreign counterparts.

He cited the example of Globacom that lived up to the yearnings of Nigerian in 2003, when it pioneered the per second billing system, against the claims of foreign operators that the system was not possible as at that time.

Before the roll out of Globacom, telecoms consumers were charged per minute for all calls.

Also in his presentation at the event, the Director in charge of e-Government in the Federal Ministry of Communication, Temitope Fashedemi, noted that Globacom’s multimillion dollar submarine cable backbone had reduced the cost of access to digital information in Nigeria.

According to him, the facility had brought the Internet closer to the people. He discouraged data users from hosting their data offshore, saying it was more secure for Nigerian companies and organisations to domicile their data in servers in Nigeria using local service providers.

Earlier, Globacom had made an insightful presentation on the topic “Towards a Digitalised Future.”

In the paper by Tega Agofure, Globacom said the future was already in sight as people were already living their daily lives using dozens of digital connections for business and personal convenience.

According to Globacom, besides smart phones, there are already billions of connected objects across the world with smart sensors embedded in cars, microwaves ovens, fuel dispensers, generators, and so many other tools and appliances, which interact and provide real time data to businesses and individuals.

---

Quelle/Source: The Guardian, 13.09.2017

Bitte besuchen Sie/Please visit:

Go to top