AfICTA - Africa ICT Alliance as a strategic partner of EDTECH Summit (Nigeria Largest Educational Summit) 2020 holding @ the Exhibition Pavilion by ICC, Abuja, Nigeria from 3rd - 4th March cordially invites the participation of stakeholders from academic to the 4in1 event featuring Conference, Awards, Exhibition and Sponsorship opportunities. To obtain your free pass to attend the conference kindly register here 

Educational Technology (EdTech Summit) is the Nigerian leading annual professional development conference and exhibition focusing on technology integration strategies engaging instructional practices, digital tools and resources, and emerging trends for teachers, administrators, publishers, and technology staff.

Bringing together over 500 EdTech stakeholders and decision-makers (EdTech& e-learning startup founders, publishers, investors, venture capitalists, institution owners & heads, educators, etc.) through the 2day CONFERENCE I EXPO I PITCH I AWARDS and is going to be Nigeria’s biggest gathering in EdTech with global participation.

Through a series of interactive sessions, inspirational keynotes, demos, and start-up pitches, around 25 international thought leaders and speakers will share their insights & perspectives on Educational Technology in Education and its practical applications... read more

The Nigeria Digital Economy Diagnostics say with improvements in digital connectivity, digital skills, digital financial services and other core areas of digital development, Nigeria can fully unleash new economic opportunities, create jobs and transform people’s lives.

According to one of the organizers of the 7th Summit, Mr. Tola Sogbesan, CEO Axiom Konsulting and a brief interview session with Kayode Oyeyemi, Snr. Programme Officer of Africa ICT Alliance (AfICTA), Nigeria as the biggest economy in Africa with one of the largest population of young people in the world, is well-positioned to develop a strong digital economy, which would have a transformational impact on the country and Africa at large.

Through innovations and investments with policies that ensure affordable; safe; secure and resilient Internet, the Nigeria economy can harness digital data and new technologies, generate new content, link individuals with market and government services, and roll out new, sustainable business models.

The report provides an assessment of the state of the country’s digital economy around the five pillars of the Digital Economy for Africa initiative, Digital financial services, digital platform, digital entrepreneurship and digital skills key foundational elements of a digital economy.

He said AfICTA is an alliance which composed of ICT private sector stakeholders from over 30 African nations and has a vision to fulfill the promise of the digital age for everyone in Africa by connecting African ICT players for increased intra Africa trade and collaboration with other Africa countries.

In addition, it will mobilize the core leadership of Africa ICT professionals and experts in the business community, academic, technical community and civil society to be fully engaged in the global internet Governance muilti-stakeholders dialogues and also organize non- government ICT stakeholders in Africa for effective local and Continental advocacy.

The alliance will also improve on her partnership with the Africa Union and all the regional economic commission towards realizing global sustainable development targets for Africa.

The 7th AfICTA Summit was hosted by KAD Consortium (Kontemporary Konsulting Ltd, Axiom Consulting Ltd and Dotengee Enterprise) on 29th November, 2019 @ the Pavilion, beside International Conference Center, Abuja.

The following below were the resolutions of the meeting on ensuring deep integration of technology into all sectors and how DNS abuse can be prevented or mitigated:

• Improve Digital Infrastructure:It is evident that though Nigeria has the largest mobile market in Africa, it still lacks sufficiency regarding broadband infrastructure and that has left a significant number of the population @ the rural areas without digital access and ability to use the internet.
• Bridge Digital Literacy Gap: School curriculum should accommodate digital literacy training and students at all levels should be taught on how they can stay safe while surfing the internet. However, low enrolment in basic education and the poor quality of that education coupled with a lack of digital skills in curricula is segmenting digital skills into a slim share of the population, excluding the poorest from the benefits of the digital world.
• Cybersecurity Awareness:

Awareness and preventive measures

1. Train employees in cybersecurity principles.
2. Install, use and regularly update antivirus and antispyware software on every computer used in your business.
3. Use a firewall for your Internet connection.
4. Download and install software updates for your operating systems and applications as they become available.
5. Make backup copies of important business data and information.
6. Control physical access to your computers and network components.
7. Secure your Wi-Fi networks. If you have a Wi-Fi network for your workplace make sure it is secure and hidden.
8. Require individual user accounts for each employee.
9. Limit employee access to data and information and limit authority to install any
10. Regularly change passwords

• Strengthen Digital PlatformsThrough PPP: Public-Private Partnership and Multi-stakeholderism should be adopted when projects are being carried out to ensure no duplicate and projects are not in silos. Government and Private sector should work hand in hand to maximize available resources.
• Reduction in Taxes and Bank Charges:It is so sad that instead of benefiting from using the digital means of saving money today, there are several charges (Tax and Stamp duties) that discourage those who would like to use the digital infrastructure provided by the financial institutions.
• Access to Digital Financial Servicesand 1-digit Interest Loan: A huge number of youth and adults are without access to a formal account, stalling the country’s journey toward financial inclusion. Those with access who are willing and able to enhance the GDP of the country need to have access to loans that could help in expanding their business or innovations.

Improve the Policy Environment for Digital Entrepreneurship: Despite its large, youthful, and entrepreneurial population, digital entrepreneurship is yet to be fully exploited given its potential to become an engine of economic transformation in Nigeria.

Speakers Awarded

Reflecting on our achievements for the year 2019 which you are instrumental to, we want to wish you the Joy of the season and prosperous year 2020.From AfICTA Secretariat

At the recently concluded IGF 2019: Berlin, Africa was represented on many fronts by different Professionals from the private sector including the Worksop on Unlocking the Digital Potential of the DLDC on 28th November 2019 organized by Africa ICT Alliance AfICTA. visit here for more information. Dr Jimson Olufuye, Immediate Past Chairman, AfICTA & CEO, Kontemporary Konsulting Ltd. was also part of a Workshop Session at the IGF 2019 on Dynamic Coalition on Core Internet Values on Day 4, 29th November 2019 between 11:30 and 13:00.

The theme of the session was Security, Safety, Stability and Resilience and it was held jointly with the Dynamic Coalition on IoT Session. The aim of these sessions was to examine the necessary policy questions and policy and ethical considerations important for development, deployment and use of IoT as well as to examine these Values in question as “Internet Values”, not as American, Indian, European or Chinese, Values as Core and permanent, not as transitory ephemeral positions that are altered with an occasional Internet Shutdown or a Regional ideology. The expected outcome would be that these Values percolate down as ethics and good practices for the Internet and IoT.

Dr Jimson Olufuye presented a paper on Data Governance on the Internet Space, by the Internet Model where he stated that Data Governance is a multi-layered effort at the national, regional and global level and the need for harmony in the global data governance ecosystem cannot be over-emphasized. He further presented a Comparative Analysis of the European General Data Protection Regulation GDPR, the Nigeria Data Protection Regulation (NDPR) and Kenya Data Protection Act (KDPA) before discussing efforts made for harmonized Governance Framework at the global level.

In Conclusion, Dr Jimson said

“As Vinton G. Cert said in his “Agenda for the Next Decade” contribution to the publication “ Towards A Global Framework for Cyber Peace and Digital Cooperation: An Agenda for the 2020s”, I quote “…Having identified problems and issues, the IGF needs to enable and empower its secretariat to monitor and report on progress toward solutions and resolutions. While the IGF is not likely the correct forum for problem solving,…”; and as many others experts have indicated, there is need for there to be an International Treaty providing binding frameworks for the Internationally agreed principles and norms hence the proposed partway of the CSTD as a mechanism for enabling a global framework for establishing a binding Treaty for Data Governance and for the stability, peace and cooperation on the Internet” Read More