The Executive Director, Operations
at DigitalSENSE Africa, the organizers of the forum, Mrs. Nkemdilim Nweke said
that the March date was taken after adequate consideration on other industry
events billed for this year.
She also said at the weekend that
already, stakeholders have started taking space of participation in the two-day
forum, which prepares Nigerians and stakeholders alike on the importance of
participating on the global Internet Governance Forum (IGF).
According to her, the previous three
years have seen the Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum series recording resounding
success each year and serving as a roundtable for discussion of Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) issues with particular reference to Internet
Governance (IG).
She said that this year’s forum
theme would be on ‘Internet Governance and Mobile Economy in Nigeria.’
Highlighting the importance of the
theme, Mrs. Nweke said that with the licensing of some companies by the Central
Bank of Nigeria (CBN) to operate mobile money, it has become crucial to explore
this in line with laws of the land and relevant regulations in comparison with
the global best practices.
She further said that the fact that
these licensees tend to drive their services to Nigerians based on mobile
networks already existing makes it imperative to create more awareness on the
subject and how it would affect Nigerians and Internet community in the
country.
Mrs. Nweke confirmed that the
two-day event would hold at the prestigious Golden Gate Paradise, Ikoyi-Lagos
with several speakers already filing in for the event both offshore and within
the country.\
She, therefore, enjoined notable Internet
Service Providers (ISP), Value Added Service (VAS) providers, network vendors,
telecom operators and mobile money operatives and consumer groups to take
active part in the forum.
(Excerpts from ITRealmsOnline)
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