The country’s tech-ambassadors were carefully selected after a highly competitive process anchored by the office for ICT Innovation & Entrepreneurship (OIIE) which is an arm of NITDA.
All 10 include Nicademia, SIX, Tattara, Accounteer, Beat Drone, Cloudoria, Dropque, MyPadi, Ward Monitor and MTK e-Learning will join their peers from over 60 countries at the second edition of the GITEX Startups Global Movement, which was launched last year at GITEX to be a global rallying ground for funding startups and exposing innovators to mentors and venture capitalists.
GITEX is the premier annual technology event in the Middle East, Asia and Africa hosting over 185, 000 visitors from more than 140 countries. This year’s edition holds at the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC) with the theme Re-Imagining Realities -Discover Transform Innovate.
Nigeria is promoting three thematic activities for its participation this year on ICT investment and exposure of indigenous entrepreneurs. The activities are the Nigerian Pavilion, the Startup Innovation Hub, and the Africa Investment Forum (AIF) being put together jointly by the Nigerian government through NITDA and the UAE government through the DWTC, organisers of GITEX.
The AIF is designed to attract to the Africa’s investment potential in ICT; the AIF will highlight Nigeria’s investment increasing portfolio for ICT investment as the continent’s largest economy and market for ICT. The AIF will be drawing participation from the technology business communities in Asia, Europe, the Americas and the rest of Africa.
NITDA’s Director-General, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami said NITDA’s remains committed to its mandate to build a technology ecosystem that thrives on indigenous manpower connected to the global IT community. Pantami said young people are a critical focus of NITDA’s agenda to develop the IT sector.
“Our young people are highly talented. With more training, exposure, funding and mentorship, a thriving IT industry can be encouraged to grow within international standards so that we can not only meet our local needs but also become an IT exporting nation,” said Pantami.
The startups on Nigeria’s GITEX list this year include: Cloudoria, a web based operating system, helping to improve access to computing in developing countries like Nigeria; Cloudoria is an operating system re-imagined and built on web technology, a single software platform that runs across devices including smartphones, tablets, TVs, and PCs; SIX –IoT which is an electronic device using Raspberry Pi, Microcontrollers, Sensors and some electronics components.
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