African, Indian ministers to shape ICT future at Nigerian summit

As new technologies and innovations emerge and become ubiquitous and demanding, African communications ministers led by Nigeria’s Communications Minister, Adebayo Shittu, and his Ghanaian counter, Mrs. Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, will meet in Nigeria with their Indian counterpart, Shri Manoj Sinha, to fashion the future of Africa’s Information and Communications Technology industry.
 
The occasion is the Indo-Africa ICT Expo & Summit 2017, a two-day forum designed under the auspices of strengthening Indo-African relations essentially to move the African ICT industry to greater heights with the theme ‘Digital Dreams of Developing Nations’.
 
As explained by Shri Rajesk Kumar Bhatnagar, the Director-General, of the Telecom Equipment and Services Export Promotion Council (TEPC), a body set up by the Indian Government, which is organising the event, the programme presents African ICT experts a unique opportunity to present and review their nations’ ICT plans over short, medium and long term periods.

India’s giant strides in ICTs are globally recognised as a shining example for all developing economies to emulate. Hence, this event being organised by the TEPC in conjunction with the National Association of Software and Services Companies (NASSCOM) of India offers the African continent a huge opportunity to learn and adopt new strategies for technology growths.
   
The organisers informed that a key highlight of the event will be an ICT Ministers’ Roundtable Meeting scheduled for today (Wednesday), on the guiding theme: ‘Digital Vision of the Developing Nations,” a platform for ministers to present and share the ICT visions of their countries over the next five years. This will showcase partnership opportunities that such vision would bring to the industry at large for the two regions. With lots of opportunities for SMEs, the event will also showcase the best of the telecom and IT industry from Africa and India.