NCC supports DSA on Digital Sense forum

Nigeria’s telecom industry regulator, the Nigerian Communications Commission, has given support to Digital Sense Africa (DSA) on the convening of the Nigeria Digital Sense forum billed for Lagos on November 5, 2009.
The event scheduled for the Golden Gate, Ikoyi, Lagos, will offer stakeholders the needed platform to articulate a position on the upcoming Internet Governance Forum scheduled for Sharm el Sheikh, Egypt, from November 15 - 18, 2009. The theme of the Nigeria Digital Sense forum is `Internet Governance: Creating Opportunities for all Nigerians.’
Head, Public Affairs of NCC, Mr. Reuben Muoka, who confirmed the support of the Commission in hosting the preparatory forum in Nigeria, said the Commission is keen in ensuring that the country is well positioned on issues of Internet governance.
He expressed the hope that the forum would achieve the major objectives of enlightening Nigerians and galvanizing a common voice for the country at the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) which holds in Egypt.
“We think that the organizers have a good vision of creating a platform to aggregate expert opinions and positions regarding Internet Governance so that Nigeria will flow with the global community in arriving at a desirable position for the future of the Internet which is an incredible resource available to the whole world,” he said.
Executive Director, Operations at the Digital Sense Africa, Mrs. Nkemdilim Nweke, applauded NCC for its foresightedness in supporting the forum, mostly the Commission’s leadership for not only paving the way for ICT revolution in Nigeria but in addressing all aspects of ICT in such a way that the opinion of Nigeria is now respected globally mainly because of what the Commission has achieved and has continued to achieve.
She noted that the importance the Commission attaches to the availability of Internet across the country has made a bold statement about its full understanding of ICT and how to make the nation enjoy the most of this global resource.
She recalled that NCC has in the recent past remained the sole engine behind the Internet Governance agenda in Nigeria, mostly as a follow up after the former President, Olusegun Obasanjo directed the Commission and National IT Development Agency (NITDA) to work out modalities for cheaper internet access in the country.
Pointing out that before now, NCC has spurred the establishment of the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN) and Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA) and has been very supportive in the sustenance of these organizations.
Most of this, she said, would form the highlights at the Digital Sense forum already backed by NiRA, IXPN, Nigeria Internet Group (NIG), and Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) to name a few.
The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) is an award winning telecommunications regulator which has been championing the liberalization of telecom industry in Nigeria and spearheaded the telecom industry market revolution to over 68 million mobile user growth in the last eight years. While
Digital Sense Africa is an initiative of Remnek Kommunications Ventures; Information and Communication Technology (ICT) analysts, public relations consultancy, with continental media affiliates as part of its enlightenment strategies to engage Nigerians for sustainable deployment and utilization of technologies in order to make sense out of the revolution.

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