The Executive Director, Operations at DigitalSENSE Africa,
Mrs. Nkemdilim Nweke gave this assurance in Lagos at the weekend, asserting
that “we are set for this year’s Nigeria DigitalSENSE forum on Internet
Governance for Development.”
She also said that this year’s edition scheduled to hold at
the Golden Gate Paradise, March 8-9 in Lagos, would be presided over by Internet
guru and immediate president of the Nigeria internet Group (NIG) Mr. Lanre
Ajayi.
Mrs. Nweke noted that currently Mr. Ajayi is serving as a council
member of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN)’s Generic
Names Supporting Organization (GNSO).
She further pointed out that apart the fact that the
Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr.
Eugene Juwah, Director of Information Security and New Media at NCC, Dr.
Sylvanus Ehikioya, president of Nigeria Internet Registration Association
(NIRA), Mrs. Mary Uduma, Executive Director, Paradigm Initiative Nigeria, Mr.
Gbenga Sesan, youthful Social activist, Japheth Omojuwa and chief executive of
Nigeria internet Exchange, Mr. Muhammed Rudman.
Additionally, the vice president of Internet Service
Providers Association of Nigeria (ISPAN), Mr. Sunday Folayan, she said, would
preside over the interactive session, as well as presidents of all the
industry-groups within the Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
sector including the Association of Telecom Companies of Nigeria (ATCON),
mother of Internet evolution in the country, Mrs. Ibukun Odusote among others.
Mrs. Nweke said that the Country manager of the Software
giant, Microsoft Nigeria, Mr. Emmanuel Onyeje has confirmed as one of the key
speakers at the 2012 edition of the Nigeria DigitalSENSE Africa (DSA) forum on
Internet Governance for Development (IG4D), due to hold this Thursday and
Friday in Lagos.
This is coming as the Executive Director, Paradigm
Initiative Nigeria (PIN), Mr. Gbenga Sesan, has also affirmed his participation
as he gears up to take participants on the subtheme: ‘Youth Advantage of Mobile
Economy in Nigeria.”
Onyeje, she said, would lead a team of experts from
Microsoft to discuss mobility solutions and is expected to make a presentation
with detailed highlights on some mobile service offers on Microsoft platform.
She said that Nigeria DigitalSENSE forum on Internet
Governance for Development is a veritable platform for Nigerians to know more
about mobile offering from Microsoft, especially for mobile money services.
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