The 5th IT Edge West Africa Convergence Forum, scheduled for
next month, March has received the support of MTN Nigeria.
The event is organized by the ITEdge Intelligence Unit
(ITE-IU), owned by Know-How Media publishers of IT Edge News.Com; the annual
interactive Forum focuses on Convergence Trends in West Africa in conjunction
with regulatory authorities and policy makers from across West Africa.
Disclosing this, the head of ITE-IU) and editor of IT Edge
News.Com, Mr. Segun Oruame, said that the forum holds on March 30, in Lagos at
the instance of the industry’s stakeholders in Nigeria.
“Mobile telecommunication company, MTN Nigeria with close to
40 million subscribers, is one of the sponsors of Forum 2012,” he revealed.
Oruame also said that the event hyped as the leading
platform for networking on technology and regulatory convergence in West
Africa, has since 2006 offered a window for articulating on the way forward in
one of the sector’s most inspiring trends.
The Forum, he said, holds jointly with the West Africa Top
50 Technology Business Companies Recognition Ceremony; the annual ranking of
the ECOWAS sub-region’s leading technology business enterprises.
Forum has traditionally enjoyed support from key industry
players, associations and ministries including the Nigeria Communications
Commission, National Communications
Authority (Ghana), West African Telecommunications Regulators Association
(WATRA), Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON); the
Gambia Ministry of Information, Sierra Leone ICT Association (SLICTA),
Association of Licensed Telecommunications Operators of Nigeria (ALTON) and the
Gambia Ministry of Information through the Public Utility Regulatory Authority
(PURA) among others.
This year Forum’s theme is ‘closing the Media Ranks: Media
Windows and New Media Contents.’
As said by him, the event has been structured to look at the
enhanced opportunities for the Convergence of Media, Regulation, Content and
Digitalization under the framework to appreciate the unfolding trends in
contents interpretation, and content delivery on Converged Infrastructures
including mobile applications and mobile pipes.
MTN Nigeria, he said, has remained key in driving growth
within the telecom sectors; a major player in the provision of ICT
infrastructures, last miles services and the creation of new innovative
products that have impacted on people and communities.
Pointing out that the network is powering a mobile money
services initiative to explore converged opportunities for financial
transactions via mobile windows in a country that is still largely
under-banked.
“Forum anticipates having quality attendance in line with
its established tradition in the last five years. Three speakers will be drawn
from broadcast, satellite and software/applications industries to explore the
expansive opportunities across sectors including the aviation market, broadcast
industry and the financial sector where tremendous innovation has taking place
to impact positively on service delivery,” Oruame said.
He further said that the 5th Convergence Forum offers a
window for stakeholders from the broadcast and telecoms; banking and insurance;
education and entertainment; and the wider private and public sectors to
articulate shared ideas on advancing the industry for the mutual benefits of
all players in the field.
The IT Edge West Africa Top 50 Technology-Business
Enterprises Ranking is the yearly computation of the ITE-IU ranking the top
companies with extensive influence and marketplace relevance within the West
Africa sub-region.
“It has been conducted as an annual event since 2006 with
critical research findings forming part of survey content,” he said.
The IT Edge West Africa Convergence Forum, he said, has over
the years become the leading and sole event in all of West Africa centering on
the merging and expansive opportunities in convergence.
Stressing that it has enjoyed tremendous support from
leading regulators, operators and industry associations within and outside the
country, noting that the world’s No.1 equipment vendor Sweden’s Ericsson was a
major sponsor of the 2009, 3rd IT Edge West Africa Convergence Forum.
Remmy Nweke
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