Nigeria’s Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for the International Telecommunications Union(ITU) Telecom World 2016 are set to hold stakeholders forum on possible ways to get more foreign direct investors in the Information Communication Technology sector into the country leveraging the world forum coming up in Thailand.
NewswatchNigeria can report that the Minister of Communications, Barrister Adebayo Shittu, will lead other keynote speakers at the planned stakeholder’s forum in preparations for this year’s event according to Nigeria’s Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for the Bangkok, Thailand November 14 – 17, 2016 event.
Other keynote speakers include the Executive Vice Chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta; Managing Director of Galaxy Backbone, Mr. Yusuf Kazaure, his counterpart at Nigerian Communications Satellite Limited (NIGCOMSAT), Ms Abimbola Alale; Acting Director General of National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Dr. Vincent Olatunji among others.
According to the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the Nigerian stakeholders forum which is slated for Monday, September 5, 2016 at the Sheraton Hotel and Towers, Ikeja, is expected to throw more light on the benefits that will spring from participation of local stakeholders at the annual United Nation event.
Organisers say that the forum is for Policy Makers, Regulators, Telecommunication Operators, Service Providers, Equipment Vendors, Banks and Financial Institutions, Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), Innovators, Software Developers, Original Equipment Vendors, Value Added Service providers among others. This year’s ITU Telecom event will hold in Bangkok, Thailand from November 14 – 17, 2016.
NCC says the ITU Telecom World 2016 will provide participants the opportunity to network and showcase their innovations and tap new business models in Information and Communications Technology (ICT) terrain.
Participants will explore importance of collaboration with the digital economy through best approaches, business models and technologies to forge flourishing inclusive ecosystem. Nigeria has adopted “Smart Communities: the key to a digital Nigeria” as theme, according to the Nigerian telecoms regulator.
The general theme for ITU Telecom World 2016 is “Collaboration in the digital economy”. This year’s theme will feature compelling formats ranging from top-level CEO/Ministerial round tables to frank, open dialogues between Governments and Small & Medium business leaders and interactive panel debates.
