Anayo Agu, senior commercial specialist with the U.S Commercial Service in Nigeria has said that technology diffusion made possible through strategic partnerships between U.S and Nigerian firms, would militate against software piracy prevalent in the country.
This he said in a media parley to announce the 2009 CTO conference and exhibitions holding in Lagos this week.
Agu said that strategic partnership in technology with U.S firms is the most effective way to enable Nigerian firms and technology professionals play a more proactive and profitable role in the development of the country because American firms have over the years, demonstrated that they have competitive advantage in providing specialized training, capacity building and technology transfer in this region.
He stated that the increasingly rapid diffusion of new technologies is a clear reminder that local markets are no longer protected by national boundaries in the present globalized economy, and so Nigerian firms should seize that opportunity to acquire the knowledge and tools necessary to step up their game on the global scene.
CTO is an annual event organized by the U.S Commercial Service Nigeria. This year’s edition has the theme: Growing the Market through Partnerships in Technology,” and focuses on the vital role that partnerships, distributorships and other types of collaboration between firms play in growing sales by leveraging complementary capabilities to reach new markets and customers.
Hopefully, this year’s event would help define the path that the Nigerian market takes in applying information and communications technologies to provide new products and services to meet the rapidly expanding needs of a growing population in Nigeria and throughout the West African region.
CTO 2009 features U.S technologies, tools and services that Nigeria demands as it grows and modernizes its economy, besides catalyzing partnerships between local and U.S firms which informed the agency’s sponsorship of the event.