A 10-man Local Organizing Committee (LOC)
for the 2016 Innovation Africa Digital (IAD) Summit has been inaugurated in
Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), reports ITRealms.
The Vice-Chairman of the Summit Planning Team, Mr. Owoicho
Igoji, while inaugurating the 10-man LOC said that IAD Summit is a continental ICT
stakeholder engagement platform that is held annually across the African
continent.
He said that before now, the IAD had held successfully
in 13 countries, pointing out that Nigeria was selected to host the 2016 event
due to recent developments in the telecoms and ICT sector.
Some of these events, he said, include the recent
rebasing of her economy in 2014, and the huge contribution of the sector to the
Nigerian GDP, played a major role in Nigeria’s emergence as the largest economy
in Africa.
The 14th edition of the IAD Summit, he
said, will hold from 19th – 21st April, 2016 at Transcorp
Hilton Hotel, Abuja by 8.30am.
Igoji, who doubles as chairman, LOC said the committee’s
Terms of Reference (ToR) was carefully created in a manner that will ensure the
successful execution of the event.
“The ToR has been structured in a manner that makes it
possible to plan and deliver the event end to end. It will also help to guide
deliberations of the LOC and the execution of assigned tasks. Our focus should
be to deliver positive results on the basis of the MOU signed between Nigeria represented
by Ministry of Communications and GBB on one hand and Extensia UK,” he said.
ITRealms gathered that the committee is made up of five sub-committees namely; Programme Coordination/Secretariat/Accommodation, Entertainment/Dinners, Media/Publicity/Marketing,
Finance/Procurement and Logistics/Transportation/Security, even as LOC membership
was drawn from public ICT ecosystem.
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