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Amos Emmanuel Appointed World Summit Award Expert in Nigeria

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Mr. Amos Emmanuel has been appointed World Summit Award expert for Nigeria. The national expert has responsibility and decision making power over who gets to be nominated as the national best. He or she provides the nominations of the best digital contents from his/her country in each of the 8 WSA categories.

 

Amos Emmanuel is the Chief Software Architect/Ceo, Programos Software Limited. He is a Board Member of the Information Technology (Industry) Association of Nigeria, ITAN; a member of the Institute of Software Practitioners of Nigeria, ISPON;  a member of Nigeria Computer Society, NCS. The Founding Partner of the Technology Partnership Initiative for Africa, TECHPIA NETWORK and Programos Foundation, is the Chairman, ITAN Strategic Initiative Committee, ISIC.

 

 

The formation of Programos Software Limited, NIGERIA and Programos Software (Ghana) Limited, were after several work experiences as Head of IT and Systems Departments of some financial management firms. He is the author of the most populous african capital market software called INTEGRA.WEBSTONE used by over 100 african stockbroking organisations. Amos Emmanuel founded the eAfrica.SIDOE-BPO Initiative (Software Implementation, Development and Outsourcing Entrepreneurship for Business Process Outsourcing Initiative) targeted at re-training graduates of diverse disciplines from our tertiary institutions freely so as to become self-reliant and encourage self-employment after building desired capacities in Information-Technology-Enabled-Services, ITES, and Business-Processing-Outsourcing, BPO.

 

What makes up the expert panel?


Expert Tasks and Responsibilities

 

The main task of an expert panel member is to provide nominations of the best multimedia products or applications from his/her country based on an objective process of judgement, according to the 8 categories and guidelines of the WSA. The eight products (one per category) of each UN member state shall be proposed by entering the data into the WSA online database. Please find more general information here.

 

Required Skills

  • High expertise and several years of working experience in the fields of multimedia, content industries, and ICTs.
  • Proficiency in English.
  • Experts shall be very well informed about the WSA initiative and processes, prove high motivation and state a clear reason for their intention to join the WSA.

 

Tekedia wishes to congratulate Mr. A. Emmanuel and hopes he leads our nation in this capacity.

Nigeria Com Returns To Lagos – Africa’s Largest Telecoms Market

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Nigeria Com is a preeminent conference in Nigeria where participants will gain unique market perspectives and insights from a 40 strong speaker-line up including 25+ Operator leaders. The 2 day agenda equips you to capitalise on new networks and services, while the 60 stand networking exhibition will showcase the world’s foremost technology and solutions available for your business. With 1,000+ attendees, if you do telecoms business in the region, this is an event you cannot afford to miss! Past speakers included CEOs of the leading telcos in Nigeria like Etisalat Nigeria, Starcomms, among others.

 

 

Nigeria Com returns to Lagos for the 2nd year – the central business hub of Nigeria, Africa’s largest telecoms market.

As the only event dedicated to the outstanding growth potential of Africa’s largest telecommunications market Nigeria Com is a unique opportunity to extend and expand your business in this dynamic market.

 

Nigeria is one of Africa’s largest and one of its most dynamic telecoms markets, thanks to a legacy of healthy competition, a unified licensing regime and high levels of investment. Competition is fierce among the country’s operators, led by MTN and Airtel Nigeria as well as smaller and newer players, whether GSM, CDMA or WiMAX based.

 

Network coverage and quality of service are major priorities for all operators, who are also looking at more cost-effective solutions to retain their margins. As the market is maturing, new value-added services are being launched to increase revenues beyond voice.

 

Nigeria Com provides a unique environment for all stakeholders to debate the future development of the Nigerian telecoms landscape and to build business partnerships.

 

Who Will you Network With?

Outstanding attendance from across the Nigerian telecoms ecosystem:

  • 1,000+ Attendees
  • 345 Companies represented
  • 25 Countries represented
  • 53% Operator delegate attendance


Equip your Business to Capitalist on New Networks and Services in Nigeria

The 2 day conference agenda covers all the latest technologies to deliver you all the insights, inspiration and knowledge you’ll need to capitalise in this high growth market. Topics include:

  • Broadband
  • Value Added Services
  • LTE
  • Fibre
  • Operator Strategies
  • Network Sharing
  • Outsourcing
  • Marketing, Pricing and Loyalty
  • Fraud and Revenue Assurance

Mobile Monday Lagos Meets May 23 – Hope It Gets Serious

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MoMo, Mobile Monday is a global community of mobile industry visionaries, developers and influential’s fostering cooperation and cross-border business development through virtual and live networking events to share ideas, best practices and trends from global markets.

MoMo is organized by a group of dedicated volunteers from around the world. Originating in Helsinki, Finland, in the year 2000, Mobile Monday has grown into the world’s leading mobile community. And currently has presence in over 100 countries.

 

MoMo has the following global objectives:

  • Foster an open and independent innovation platform within the mobile sector.
  • Facilitate industry networking between small and large companies and individuals
  • Bridge partnership exchanges between domestic and international organizations
  • Present innovative visions, trends, studies and forecasts from the mobile marketplace
  • Provide opportunities for local members to effectively participate in global initiative
  • Contribute to the education of the broader public through its publications, online presence and media partnerships

If this looks like something that interests you, you can join us.

 

Below are some of the reasons why Nigeria needs MoMo at this stage:
  • Nigeria’s Telecoms market has developed but it is in latent state. We need to unleash its potential for a services driven market.
  • Nigerians in the IT/Telecoms sector needs to be more aware of what their next door neighbor is doing more than what is happening in Silicon Valley.
  • Developers needs to meet investors and vise-versa
  • Start-ups needs to meet investors, developers and potential customers
  • Trainers needs to meet students and vise-versa
  • Developers needs to be more aware of global and LOCAL trends and the opportunities there in.
  • Students would be motivated to develop local apps when they have a channel to know about local success stories
  • Nigerian developers needs to be aware of what is now possible with all platforms and events. e.g LBS Challenge, Calling All Innovators, OVI Apps, OVI API’s/SDKs, MeeGo and Symbian platforms.

 

The May Mobile Monday Lagos meet-up day is announced – 23 May 2011 (courtesy of Mobility Nigeria).

 

Date: Monday, May 23, 2011

Time: 5:30 – 8pm

Venue: Robert’s (Brown’s) Cafe
16B Akin Olugbade Street
Victoria Island
Lagos Lagos
Nigeria

Better Risk Communication – Harvard Business Review

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Consider two scenarios: Company A is a medical device maker that just released a new pacemaker. Its datasheet states that the device could fail once every 90 years. Its competitor, Company B, released its latest version a week before. In its datasheet, it noted that the device is guaranteed to function properly, under approved procedures, for 15 years, before it begins to experience reliability problems, due to aging and other factors. In these two fictitious… More »

Conference Alerts Loses Grounds To Lanyrd

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Notice something! The folks in the social media world are not listing their conferences in Conference Alerts, at least for Nigeria. Do you where they are doing that? Tekedia Intelligence uncovered it to be Lanyrd. That is where it is happening.  So when you are looking for future conferences or events, especially in the social media world, you should check out Lanyrd. Conference Alerts seems to be for academic institutions or non-social media institutions.

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