New York-based Institute of Electrical and Electronics
Engineers (IEEE) has named the immediate past president of the Institute of
Software Practitioners of Nigeria (ISPON), Chief Chris Uwaje as its chair on
publicity and communication in Africa, for the forthcoming IEEE-Internet of
Things (IoT) World Forum 2016, reports ITRealms.
Disclosing this, Mr. Uwaje in a press statement made available
to ITRealms noted that the Internet of Things and Everything (IoTs/IoE)
represents perhaps the last hope for Africa’s 21st Century knowledge,
creativity and innovation renaissance.
This, he said, was in pursuant to resolutions at the last
meeting of the IEEE-WFIoT 2016 Organising Committee held on 9th March, 2016, where
“Chris Uwaje was appointed the Co-Chair for Publicity and Communications for
Africa.”
Uwaje’s mandate, ITRealms gathered includes but not limited
to promoting, propagating and advancing the aims and objective of the
IEEE-World Forum on Internet of Things, but above all, to establish innovative
programmes of ensuring the participation and contribution of the ICT Industry
leadership, government policy makers, IT Professionals and stakeholders in
Africa, to accelerate the diffusion, application and domestication of the
promise and opportunities of IoTs.
He also said that the forum with the theme: “Internet of
Things: Smart Innovation for Vibrant Ecosystem” he said, promises the
assemblage of best brains and leaders in academia, innovation, corporate
industry, technology business and government policy makers to discuss and map
the way forward and codify future opportunities and benefits of Internet of
Things and Everything (IoTs/IoE).
He equally stressed the imperative and strategic of having
Africa represented and actively contributes to the outcome of proceedings – as
the continent stands to benefit immensely from the conference, pointing out
that in order to achieve the quantum benefits from the emerging digital
opportunity, his vision is to take charge of promoting and establishing the
“Africa IoTs Pavilion” as strategic imperative for success at the WF-IoTs 2016
in the United States of America (USA).”
He told ITRealms that the 2016 IEEE 3rd World Forum on
Internet of Things (WF-IoT) – IoT: Smart Innovation for Vibrant Ecosystems is a
unique event for industry leaders, academics and decision making government
officials. IEEE WF-IOT 2016 will be held at the Hyatt Regency in Reston,
Virginia USA between 12 and 14 December, 2016.
Uwaje further said this event is designed to examine key
critical innovations across technologies which will alter the research and
application space of the future.
“The Internet of Things envisions a highly networked future,
where every object is integrated to interact with each other, allowing for
communications between objects, as well as between humans and objects, which
enables the control of intelligent systems in our daily lives. My appointment
as Africa Chair - Publicity and Communications for the 3rd World Forum on IoTs
2016 is a great challenge,” he said.
Uwaje, therefore solicited supports to deliver on this
mandate of reaching out to 500 Africa Universities and 1000 IT Industry leaders
cum players for submission of 2000 papers for consideration.
“I am sure that a well-researched paper from African
knowledge network has the pedigree for final selection. This will put Nigeria
and Africa in the Internet Protocol (IP) forefront of IoTs the digital World,”
he submitted.
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