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THE National Information Technology Development Agency, NITDA, and the Nigerian Investment Promotion Commission, NIPC, are supporting and participating at the Gulf Information Technology Exhibition, GITEX. GITEX, Leader’s Congress on Innovation and Investment is holding the event next month in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, UAE.
The GITEX Leaders Summit is a high level leadership conference focusing on smart cities and IoT bringing the government and private sectors together. NITDA will be showcasing one of Nigeria’s smart city projects, in partnership with Chams Plc. The country’s other speakers are expected to feature in the plenary on the impact of IoT or Machine to Machine (M2M) across multiple industries in the GITEX TechVertical conferences that cover retail, oil and gas, banking, healthcare, education.
According to Jack, “Nigeria is using the GITEX platform to promote Nigeria, Nigerian related ICT businesses, where new commercial partnerships can be explored, including those with telecom operators, mobile app developers, and mobile enabled transaction service providers from Nigeria.”
Part of the activities built around Nigeria’s presence at GITEX 2015 is the Nigeria Pavilion Investment Forum with the country pavilion strategically occupying the entrance foyer of the Expo.
This year, Nigeria is promoting some of her ICT start-ups in addition to already established companies shopping for offshore deals and partners. The Nigerian Country Pavilion with 20 exhibitors in all has the Nigerian Communications Commission and the NIPC, as key government players. The NIPC is leveraging on the event to showcase the country’s overall investment potential.
GITEX is the third largest technology event on the planet. GITEX’s 35th edition is holding this year with over 145,000 technology professionals, governments, investors and other trade visitors expected at the five day event. The 34th edition held last year with Nigeria being the official country partner. It has more than 143,000 visitors from 150 countries. GITEX is strategically positioned as the gateway to the Middle East, Africa and South Asia’s ICT Industry.
— Sep 28, 2015 @ 01:00 GMT
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