Johnson to Declare Open NIGF

Mrs. Omobola Johnson, minister of Communications Technology, has confirmed participation at the forthcoming third Nigeria Internet Governance Forum (NIGF) to be hosted at MUSON Centre, Onikan Lagos.

Mrs. Mary Uduma, chairperson of the Local MultiStakeholders Advisory Group (LMAG), said  that Mrs. Johnson would be attending the forum to give her remarks andofficially declare it open on Tuesday, June 10, 2014.

She also said that the forum would have the honour of welcoming Dr. Eugene Juwah, executive vice chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Mr. Peter Jack, director-general, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) as guests of honour.

She recalled Mr. Austin Okere , group managing director and chief executive officer, Computer Warehouse Group (CWG) plc, would be presiding the Nigeria Internet Governance Forum (NIGF) 2014 main event.

Mrs. Uduma assured that LMAG members made up of the Ministry of Communication Technology (MCT), National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NIRA), DigitalSENSE Africa (DSA), Internet Society (ISOC) Nigeria, Rita Talabi Foundation, Creative Technology for Development Initiative (CTDI) and Global Network for Cybersecurity (GNC), among others, are working assiduously to ensure the NIGF 2014 surmounts the success of last year, hence it was brought to Lagos.

She pointed out that the two-day 2014 NIGF is expected to commence with the hosting of youth workshop on day-1, Monday, June 9, 2014 at the same venue with tagged “Internet Governance for Job Creation & Social Enterprise Development” under the chairmanship of an Internet Security Consultant and Professor Cleopas Angaye, former DG of NITDA,

Further, she explained that the day-2, would focus on “Harnessing Multi-Stakeholders Framework for Internet Governance & Economic Growth” with discussions led by 2014 forum chairman, Mr. Austin Okere of Computer Warehouse Group Plc on June 10 at MUSON Center.

Strategically, she noted the importance of the forum, such that participants are drawn from all social and economic groups to have a say, through multi-stakeholders’ dialogue, in establishing local principles and protocols that would guide the governance of the Internet in order to facilitate economic growth in Nigeria.

Registration, Mrs. Uduma said is ongoing at NIGF website, and urged Nigerians to share the news with their various networks and make sure they participate actively in the NIGF 2014, just as the forum would harness and aggregate productive ideas routed on best practices and experiences so as encourage an all-inclusive framework for internet governance in Nigeria.