Author: ITPulse

  Vice President Yemi Osinbajo, last week Friday inaugurated an office space that can best be described as a hub for technology and innovation startups, which commissioned by Venture Garden Group and designed by Spacefinish in Lagos, South West Nigeria. The office space, tagged Vibranium Valley project, comes with facilities such conference room, training room, six meeting rooms, three storage rooms, a skylounge, cafeteria, nap rooms, audio studio, and multiple alternative workspaces. The 2500 square meter world-class offices were fully furnished, equipped, designed, and built by Spacefinish to accommodate the needs of its employees. The tech hub which is located…

  By Kester Omu The new Executive Council of the Nigeria Internet Group, as part of its effort to reposition and boost Internet growth in Nigeria, has met with the Nigerian Communications Commission, National Information Technology Development Agency and the National broadcasting Commission. At NCC, the NIG team, which was led by its President, Destiny Amana thanked the Commission for its forward looking poster and consumer-centric drive to ensure quality of service. Specifically, Amana congratulated the Commission for the recent launch of the 63 toll free emergency customer care numbers. He appealed to the Commission to revisit the existing MoU…

  The Chief Executive Officer of Simplex Business Solutions, Mr. Femi Adeniyi has adduced reasons it hosted the QLIK SENSE Tour 2018 at the Oriental Hotel, Lagos last month. He said the tour was hosted as part Simplex Business Solutions’ drive to ensure that organisations in Nigeria embrace, acquire, cultivate and utilize skills within data literacy, explaining that Qlik Sense one of the most powerful, intuitive and user-friendly business intelligence tools in the market. “We have put together this tour because we are convinced that Business intelligence amongst other technological forces will continue to shape the future of work and…

  By Martin Ekpeke The Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), today in a press conference in Lagos, unveiled agenda and focus of its 2018 National conference, scheduled to hold at the University of Ibadan later month. The President of NCS, Prof Adesola Aderounmu, while rolling out the agenda and focus of the 3-day, which is its 27th edition, disclosed that this year’s conference will lay emphasis on innovations and opportunities for building a digital, prosperous and inclusive Nigeria that leverages on information technology to achieve Sustainable Development. Specifically, he said the Conference with the theme ‘Digital Inclusion: Opportunities, Challenges, and Strategies’,…

  By Martin Ekpeke The Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF), established by the Federal Government to drive universal access to Information and Communications Technologies in rural, unserved and underserved areas, yesterday berthed in Ijebu Igbo, Ogun State for what it described as ICT utilization and sustainability workshop. The 2-day South-West Zonal Stakeholder Engagement workshop, was organized to encourage and build capacity among benefiting communities of USPF’s programmes and how to protect the infrastructure provided. Declaring the workshop open, the Chairman of Nigerian Communications Commission and Vice Chairman of USPF, Senator Olabiyi Durojaiye, urged participants at the workshop to fully harness…

  Medallion Communications, touted by stakeholders in the telecommunication industry as ‘‘Nigeria Telecom House’ has won another Interconnect Company of the year award at the Ghana Information And Telecom Awards, organized by InstinctWave in Accra, Ghana. Medallion had last year in Lagos won the Interconnect Service Provider Of The Year at the prestigious Nigeria Tech Innovation & Telecom Awards (NTITA), which was powered by Instinct Wave and supported by the Association of Telecoms Companies of Nigeria (ATCON). Reacting to the award, Engr. Ikechuchwu Nnamani, CEO, Medallion communications, said that the award would encourage Medallion to strengthen its efforts as a…

In a rapidly changing business environment, businesses are under pressure to not only comply with constantly changing regulations, but also to modernize their processes and systems. The purpose is to help reduce compliance costs, improve efficiency and effectiveness, stay competitive and drive innovation whilst looking for better ways to serve their customers. Against this backdrop, businesses will become more successful based on how they use data, analytics and collaboration in the new analytics economy. This was the thrust of the conversations made at the SAS Road to Digital Transformation and Artificial Intelligence, AI Showcase in Lagos recently. Other topics…

By Jenny Casswell and Keeya-Lee Ayre The UN Refugee Agency’s annual Global Trends study published today highlights that forced displacement is at a record high, with 68.5 million people driven from their homes by the end of 2017. Yet, there is optimism that digital solutions and the ubiquity and pace of growth of mobile technology can benefit the lives of refugees in a multitude of ways. According to UNHCR, roughly 93 per cent of refugees live in areas that are covered by at least a 2G network and 62 per cent are living in areas covered by 3G networks.…

  By Cyril Ilayah The Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), today hailed telecom consumers across the country, describing them as the biggest asset in the telecommunication industry. Danbatta gave the kudos to the consumer in a speech he delivered at today’s Telecom Consumer Parliament (TCP), with the theme “Improving Telecom Service Delivery to Consumers: Key to Industry Sustainability” which was held at the NAF Conference Centre, Kado, Abuja. “The Telecom consumer is expectedly the biggest assets in the industry. As a regulator, we are committed towards protecting their interest at all time,” he assured. He, however,…

  The present global spending on cybersecurity products (both hardware and software) and services is $114 billion, a leading data and analytics companyData has revealed. GlobalData believes that this figure is expected to have passed $140bn by 2021 at a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 6 percent, adding that spending on services accounted for 68 percent of total spending in 2017 and this share will remain relatively steady through 2021, despite the CAGR of the services segment (4.9 percent) being outstripped by that of products (7.7 percent). Many of these money will be spent on artificial intelligence (AI) -infused…