TECHDIGEST – The editorial team of DigiVation Global Network, Africa’s pioneer specialised IT Media, has presented its esteem DigiVation Man of the Year Award to Prof. Isa Ali Pantami, the minister of Communications and Digital Economy, at his office in Abuja.

Intimating the Minister of his emergence, the Editor in-Chief, Hilary Damissah, praised the efforts and initiatives of the Minister and the gains recorded which according to him have given Nigeria some competitive bargain in the innovation and Information Communications industry.

He added that “Pantami choice was based on his unparalleled leadership in growing the Nigerian digital enterprise and innovation”.

Dr Bayero Agabi, the president and chairman of DigiVation Editorial Board, highlighted that the Minister has demonstrated leadership and commitment to repositioning the Nigeria digital economy sector to now become the poster boy of the economy.

In his response, Prof. Pantami, the Minister, expressed his gratitude to the Management of DigiVation Global Network and the organisation’s contributions to nation building.

He assured that the recognition will further spur him and his team to continue to do better. The award instituted four years ago has had four previous winners with the first being Austin Okere founder Computer Warehouse Group, followed by Dr Akwasi Agyeman Executive Director/CEO, Ghana Tourism Authority, while from East Africa the only woman to have won it was Rwanda’s Minister of ICT and Innovation Paula Ingabire and for 2021, DigiVation Global Network announced the award winner as Nigeria’s Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Isa Ali Patami as the DigiVation Man of the Year.

Accordingly to the foremost IT media organisation, the emergence of the relentless Pantami was arrived at through a rigorous research process carried out by our team of reporters and industry stakeholders to name him as the eventual winner.

Digivation Global Network is a multimedia organization with interest in content production, events across Africa, Europe and America.

DigiVation has also huge online media presence, radio and television with well over 100 awards.

It’s the only media and tech outfit to have won the prestigious United Nations Economic Commission for Africa/Africa Information Society Merit Award twice for balance report and research.

Source: Techeconomy.ng

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TECHDIGEST – Mallam Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi CCIE, Director General National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has said the web is the backbone of the digital economy. As it serves as a pathway to opportunities in the Digital economy through connectivity, data, and digital platforms.

Abdullahi who was represented by Dr Muhammad Aminu Lawal, Special Assistant on Digital Transformation to the Director General, said this while delivering a keynote address at the World Wide Web Day, a hybrid event organised by the Centre for Cyber Awareness Development (CECAD). With the theme “The World Wide Web: Creating Opportunities for the New African Digital Economy”.

He said internet connectivity ensures that value is created and captured; it also ensures global access to products and services 24/7 in the digital economy, adding that through the Web, digital data continue to drive the evolution of the digital economy.

“The Web provides access to massive volumes of data used for analysis on virtually every aspect of our lives”, said the DG.

The DG noted that another significant contribution of the Web in driving the digital economy is the development of digital platforms. “Many businesses, social and personal activities are happening on various digital platforms; these leave tons of digital footprints that provide huge amounts of data for analytics”, he said.
He opined that by leveraging on the world wide web, many digital economy potentials lie ahead for Africa; these potentials will increase growth and productivity as exploiting the Web will reduce the cost of production and distribution of goods and services; improve management efficiency and communication with stakeholders; increase competition and broaden markets; provide options for customers and improves marketing and pricing.

The NITDA boss emphasised that the Agency through its strategies, has come up with numerous regulations and initiatives to ensure that opportunities are created and utilised to achieve a digital economy.
Some of these initiatives, according the DG are: Encouraging free domain registration for public institutions through Nigerian Internet Registration Association (NIRA), Facilitating Digital Literacy Training and Awareness, Digital Content Creation and Indigenous Language Translation, Effective Digitisation of Government Services (e-Government) as well as other e-services, Deployment of IT intervention projects that facilitate Digital Literacy and Skills development, Development of Nigeria Government Enterprise Architecture (NGEA) and Nigerian e-Govt Interoperability framework (Ne-GIF), Funding capacity building & Innovation initiatives to facilitate digital jobs creation, Establishment of National Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics (NCAIR).

Earlier in his opening remarks, Dr Bayero Agabi convener of the event and Executive Director (CECAD), said the world wide web day is a global celebration dedicated to web browsing, online activities that brings wealth of knowledge to your fingertips.

“It is a chance to celebrate the way the internet created an environment for collaboration and business growth while also taking a deeper look into its evolution the past years”, he said.

Adding that the purpose of the event is to come up policies that will help create a sane secure digital society.

Among Dignitaries in attendance the Director General of National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Engr. Aliyu Aziz, Managing Director Galaxy Back Bone Limited (GBB), Prof. Muhammed Bello Abubakar, President Nigeria Computer Society (NCS), Prof. Adesina Sodiya, President of ATCON, Engr. Ikechukwu Nnamani, Former President NCS, Alhaji Ladi Oguneye, Chief Executives of IT companies and other relevant stakeholders.

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