The 12th edition of e-Nigeria International Conference, Exhibitions and Awards has now been slated to commence on Thursday, 28th November, 2019.
The event which was earlier scheduled to hold from 12th – 14th November, with the theme: ‘Leveraging Technology and Indigenous Innovation to Attain the Sustainable Development Goals’, will now hold from 28th – 30th November, 2019.
e-Nigeria is Nigeria’s annual information technology conference hosted by NITDA.
The event is hosted in collaboration with other relevant stakeholders from both public and private sector as well as Non-Governmental Organisations and Academia.
It serves as a platform for ICT awareness creation, development of appropriate regulatory instruments and best practices in order to facilitate the positioning of Nigeria in the global information society.
President Muhammadu Buhari is expected to declare the conference open while
deputy secretary general of United Nations Amina J. Mohammed will deliver the keynote address.
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is a federal government agency under the supervision of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy. NITDA is established in April 2001 to implement the Nigerian information technology policy as well as coordinate general IT development and regulation in the country. Specifically, Section 6(a, b, c & m) of the Act mandates NITDA to create a framework for the planning, research, development, standardization, application, coordination, monitoring, evaluation and regulation of Information Technology practices, activities and systems in Nigeria; provide guidelines to facilitate the establishment and maintenance of appropriate infrastructure for information technology and systems application and development in Nigeria for public and private sectors, urban-rural development, the economy and the government; and accelerate internet and intranet penetration in Nigeria and promote sound internet governance by giving effect to the second schedule of the Act.
