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| Lanre Ajayi |
The recently elected council member of the Generic Name Supporting Organisation (GNSO) at the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), Mr. Lanre Ajayi is to preside over the 2012 edition of the Nigeria DigitalSENSE Africa forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) slated to hold in Lagos, next month.
The Executive Director, Operations at the DigitalSENSE
Africa, the organizers of the annual internet stakeholders meet, Mrs. Nkemdilim
Nweke said that its gladdening to note that Mr. Lanre Ajayi would be chairing this year’s event, scheduled to hold
at the Golden Gate Paradise, Ikoyi-Lagos between March, Thursday 8 and Friday
9, 2012, with the theme: Internet Governance and Mobile Economy in Nigeria.
According to her, Mr. Ajayi who was the immediate past
president of the Nigeria Internet Group (NIG) has proved his love for Internet
penetration and positive adaptation in the country since inception of NIG and particularly
the forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) being organized by DSA.
She said that Mr. Ajayi in his capacity as the chairman of
the 2012 NDSA forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D), would be
sharing some insights based on his experiences as an active player in the
development of Internet and its penetration in the country.
Additionally, Mrs. Nweke pointed out that the former vice
president of Internet Service Providers Association (ISPAN), would further
elucidate discussions on what should be expected of his current office as a
council member of the Generic Name Supporting Organisation (GNSO) at ICANN.
As said by her, Mr. Ajayi has over time proven he is an
encyclopedia of Internet evolution in the country, of which most Nigerians and
the Internet community in the country have lot to learn from, especially the
youths.
She, therefore urged Nigerians to keep a date with this
Internet guru as the nation charts a new course for the Nigeria’s internet
development in line with the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) objectives, which
this year, she noted will be in Azerbaijan, South Caucasus in September 2012.
She emphasised that the Nigeria DigitalSENSE Africa forum on
Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) remains the only annual event which
acts as a rallying point for Nigerian internet stakeholders in raising and
addressing salient issues concerning the Information and Communications
Technology (ICT) sector with particular reference to the Internet
Governance-related issues and development in Nigeria.
The forum, she said, offers stakeholders the needed platform
to take a stand and speak out on Internet Governance and accurately align
Nigeria’s position into the global Internet Governance Forum and enjoined
players in the mobile sector of the economy to take advantage of this year’s
theme.
Further, Mrs. Nweke recalled that Mr. Ajayi, has been a
director at ISPAN and holds a Bachelors and Masters degree in Electrical
Engineering at the University of Lagos.
In his acceptance to preside over the 2012 edition of the
Nigeria DigitalSENSE Africa forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D).
Ajayi, she said, had worked for the Nigerian
Telecommunications Limited (NiTEL) for 11 years before delving into private
practice by the establishment of PiNet Informatics, reputed as one of the
nation’s first Internet Service Providers (ISP).
A co-founder of the Nigeria Internet Group, a non-profit
organization committed to the promotion of the Internet in the country, Mr.
Ajayi has served as the Vice president of ISPAN and vice chairman of African
ISP Association (AfrISPA).
Equally, he has served on the council of the Nigeria
Computer Society (NCS), while presiding over the Research and Statistics
committee, even as he was ISPAN committee chairman on the implementation of the
Nigeria Internet Exchange Point (IXPN) as well as chairman of the Technical
Committee on the Nigeria’s Country Code Top Level Domain (ccTLD) name, .ng, to
name a few.
Remmy Nweke
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