The
National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has said that 26 Nigerian Information Communication Technology (ICT)
startups have in the last three years launched their products at Demo Africa, ITRealms gathered.
The Director General NITDA, Mr.
Peter Jack said, “In the last three years of Demo Africa, 26 Nigerian ICT
startups have launched their products at the event while others have co-located
or incubated inside iDEA Hub, Co-Creation Hub and other hubs”.
Emerging technology startup,
innovation and the ecosystem, ITRealms reports, are
among the key areas of ICT sector that are engaging the attention of the DG.
Demo Africa will show case Nigerian
ICT startups to the world and enrich their solution as well as provide them
opportunity to network with venture capitalists, managers and investors. In
addition, the event will build the necessary partnership that would take the
startup technology products to a successful height. “This will pave the path
for job and wealth creation”, he enumerated.
Explaining
what motivated NITDA to establish innovation hubs in Lagos and Calabar, Mr.
Jack affirmed that it is an Act of parliament to establish IT parks and
incubators as part of the efforts to develop the ICT industry.
“We have partnered with iDEA to
establish those two centres. The result of iDEA is fascinating and proves that
government can do more partnerships with the private sector to grow the
industry”.
According to press release, Mr. Jack
said, “startups require this kind of exposure” now and in the future; as the
agency has supported Demo Africa, which Nigeria is hosting for the second
consecutive year.
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