NIT MERIT AWARDS

2011 National Information Technology Merit Awards and Investiture rewards Excellence and charts the Future. It was a mixture of celebration, reward and positioning for the future at National Information Technology Merit Awards (NITMA) 2011 organized by the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS).The colourful and well attended event attracted top stakeholders of Nigeria’s IT community who came to celebrate and honour their brightest and best..........

Why Internet Is Stil Expensive In Nigeria

Yes! the fiber optic cables Glo 1 and Main 1 capacity have landed in Lagos, they are at the shores of Lagos, The issue now is how to distribute it across the country, Also no inland fiber optic cables connecting the different regions yet, and this is quite expensive. the second problem is that we lack local content, unfortunately for Nigeria with all the huge presence in the internet we do not upload. For instance nearly all our websites are hosted in the UK. There are about two billion people that are connected right now in the world and Nigeria is among the top 10 countries connected, in terms of population. But its unfortunate we don't have the content, most of our content is hosted outside the country. This is one of the reasons for the high cost of internet. The third one is the huge operational cost especially power generation. Companies here spend so much money on power. Government need to improve on the infrastructure especially in power generation.

Meet Aakash, India’s $35 “Laptop”

The long-awaited $35 laptop is here, the Indian government said on Wednesday,
Kapil Sibal, India’s minister for human resources development unveiled “Aakash”, a 256 RAM hand-held tablet computer that will cost the ministry 2276 Indian rupees, or $50, at a press conference in New Delhi. follow link for more details

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