Social networking company, Facebook, has launched SheMeansBusiness as a platform to train Nigerian female entrepreneurs and enable them grow their businesses. Ms Ebele Okobi, Facebook’s Public Policy Director for Africa, says SheMeansBusiness was designed to inspire women to start and grow their own businesses. A study conducted by Development Economics on behalf of Facebook shows […]
ITU Telecom World 2015 seeks synergy of SMEs and tech players
The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom World 2015, which started on Monday, ended yesterday at Hungexpo, Budapest, Hungary with a call for increased collaboration among Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs), governments and major ICT industry players. The event’s core themes of accelerating innovation for social impact and they ways in which SMEs are driving this […]
Nigeria’s Bassey wins ITU Telecom World 2015 Young Innovators Competition
Ogbonnaya Bassey (from Nigeria) and Ugur Can Bastik (from Turkey) have been announced by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and Intel as the winners of the of the final ITU Telecom World 2015 Young Innovators Competition challenge. The duo are expected to take part in ITU Telecom World 2015, the global ICT innovation platform for government, corporates and […]
Nigeria’s broadcast regulator envisions N260 billion Digital Migration Dividends
Nigeria is on path to gaining an estimated N160 billion from new opportunities and possibilities to be unlocked in the economy with the ongoing Digital Switchover from analogue to digital broadcasting. Emeka Mba, the Director-General of Nigeria Broadcasting Commission (NBC), the nation’s broadcasting industry regulator tells Technology Times in an exclusive interview that government expects […]
