The Acting Director-General, National Information
Technology Development Agency (NITDA),
Dr. Ashiru Daura has confirmed that the agency will in December host this
year's technology conference and exhibition, tagged eNigeria Summit 2013.
Dr Daura disclosed this to DigitalSENSE Business News while
inaugurating the Local Organising Committee (LOC) of the event in Abuja,
stressing that the agency has formally launched the activities towards the
successful hosting of the event.
He noted that eNigeria has been specially designed to
address issues geared towards enhancing local content in the deployment of
Information Technology (IT) in the Nigerian economy, while the outcome is
expected to present a framework to adequately position Nigeria among the top
leading IT economies across the globe.
This year's event is billed to hold from December 3-5,
in Abuja with the theme: 'IT Local Content in Nigeria, the Journey so far ‘with
notable speakers from both the local and international scenes.
The Director at the Lagos Business School, Dr. Pat
Utomi, will give the keynote address and expected to share his wealth of
knowledge on the nation as it borders on a knowledge economy driven through the
use of Information and Communications Technologies (ICTs) as a tool that drives
major economies across the globe, while the Minister of Communications
Technology, Mrs. Omobola Johnson, would be the Chief Host.
AN/GEE
pix: Acting Director-General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr. Ashiru Daura
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