Two
innovation-driven companies; Etisalat Nigeria and DigitalSENSE Africa Media,
Friday, at Oriental Hotel, Lagos presented prizes to the winners of the 2015
Nigeria DigitalSENSE Essay Competition, ITRealms reports.
The essay
competition which focused this year was on Net Neutrality and Nigerian
Internet Users was non-restrictive, non-discriminatory, and designed for
Nigerian students between the ages of 18 and 30.
The Head,
Environmental Compliance and Corporate Affairs, Etisalat Nigeria, Seyi
Osunsede, in her keynote, said that Etisalat naturally aligns with DigitalSENSE
Africa Media because of her innovations and creativity, emphasizing that
innovation changes the word.
Representing
the Vice President, Etisalat Nigeria, Mr. Ibrahim Dikko, Seyi said the essay
competition is another way of encouraging innovation by the Etisalat in
partnership with DigitalSENSE.
The
Etisalat-DigitalSENSE Students Essay Competition, was organized by the
DigitalSENSE Africa (DSA) Media in partnership with Etisalat Nigeria, the essay
competition was conceptualized in 2012 to encourage young men and women to make
research on issues of the Internet and come up with innovative ideas to move
the industry forward.
The Executive
Director, Operations, DSA, Mrs Nkemdilim Nweke, said the essay competition is
part of this year’s annual Nigeria DigitalSENSE Forum (NDSF) on
Internet Governance for Development (IG4D) which has the theme “ Net Neutrality
and Nigerian Internet Users,” adding that it was designed to motivate the youth
to explore opportunities on the internet as there are limitless positive
benefits therein.
The Group
Executive Editor (GEE) and Lead Strategist, DSA, Mr. Remmy Nweke, said the
company would continue to partner with Etisalat, being an innovative company.
He underscored the fact that the criteria for assessment was based on
understanding of the topic which is Internet Governance for Development and the
topic for the year.
This, he said
should be anchored on the Nigerian environment, stressing that overall
presentation is equally key to the general assessment, adding that the essay
must be limited to 600 words, emphasizing that for now the essay is meant for
Nigerian undergraduates even though secondary school students were not
disenfranchised as long as they are upto 18 of age.
The GEE stated
that apart from the prizes, the Star prize winner, for instance, had the opportunity of participating in the Nigeria Internet Governance for Forum (NIGF) as Etisalat-DigitalSENSE Student Ambassador.
One of the
judges for the essay competition, Mrs Yetunde Johnson, Chief Executive Officer, Slingshot
Technologies, said the importance of the competition cannot be overemphasized
as the students will be decision makers tomorrow, hence the need for them to know
the fundamentals of the subject matter through competitions like Etisalat-DigitalSENSE Students Essay.
The Star prize
winner of the 2015 Etisalat-DigitalSENSE Students Essay Competition, Nicodemus Onah, is a 100
Level Electronic Engineering student of the University of Nigeria Nsukka (UNN), went home with a laptop; the second prize also
went to another UNN student studying English and Literature, Mr. Kizito
Chijioke Onah who won a Tablet, while the third prize went to Blessing
Oghenetijiri Ekpobadarho, a 400 Level student of Niger Delta University in
Bayelsa State who was unavoidably absent due to logistics problems.
Her prize, a
high grade smart phone will be presented to her next week Thursday in Lagos.
Receiving the
award, Kizito thanked Etisalat and DigitalSENSE for their innovation and said
he is happy with what he won. He also said that by 13th of next month he will be
going to Abuja for an NCC organized essay competition as a finalist.
While the Star
Prize winner Nicodemus said the prize is just one out of many essay awards,
noting that in 2012 he emerged a finalist in the United Bank for Africa
organized essay for secondary school students.
Cyriacus
Nnaji/GEE
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