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The 13th Network Technology Conference and Workshop was held by regulators, operators and stakeholders with the title named Affordable Broadband For The Next 100 Million Nigerians.
In his keynote address, Connecting the next 100 Million: Realigning Nigeria's Strategic IT Direction, President, Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), Revd.Sunday A. Folayan. highlighted some of the challenges and action points, that will help us in the task of connecting the next 100 million Nigerians.
He said that connecting the next 100 million Nigerians will be made easier by recognizing the importance of information communication technology (ICT) in the nation's socio-economic development by making ICT the centerpiece of national development through the steady pursuit of policies and programmes that will re-position Nigeria as a strong player in the emerging global digital economy.
In addition, President, Internet Society Nigeria Transfer, managing Bandwidth Consortium, Adewole Ajao, said that getting affordable broadband internet access to 100m Nigerians is very feasible and achievable in Nigeria, but is something that has to be done with mindset of people who are committed because in places where you have millions of people connected, it didn't happen by accident.
"Some people decided that we need internet connectivity and we should take steps. So that is the essence of this conference and workshop, the Nigerian Network Operators Group (ngNOG) to discuss on affordable broadband for the next 100 million Nigerians including the local communities, University institutions, all and sundry so that Nigeria can be like other countries where it's working effectively".
According to Ajao, over the last 12 years they have building technical capacity to manage network within the campuses and other smaller network operators.
"This year we decided to bring a larger commercial network operators into the picture and share the things we learn from people building network all over the world so that Nigerian operators can start adding new things in place".
