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Nigeria: IBM to Establish Innovation Centre in Nigeria |
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http://businessdayonline.com/2013/09/ibm-to-establish-innovation-centre-in-nigeria/ |
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Thursday, September 12, 2013 |
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ICT for MDGs
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Nigeria |
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Sep 12, 2013 |
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Omobola Johnson, Minister of Communication Technology, has commended IBM for its renewed commitment to partner the Federal Government to develop the ICT industry in Nigeria. As part of IBMs renewed focus and commitment to Africa and Nigeria in particular, Rometty also announced that IBM would be leveraging its extensive ICT curriculum to train thousands of young Nigerians and fund ICT research projects in Nigeria. Such initiatives would prepare them to solve major IT issues and challenges. The technology company would in the short to medium term be establishing an Innovation Centre in Nigeria that would complement existing centres in South Africa and Kenya.
In her remarks, Ginni Rometty emphasised that IBM is committed to Nigeria’s ICT development agenda and is poised to partner with the Communications Technology sector on various initiatives and programmes that will impact positively on the economy as IBM continues to invest in key focus areas of technology development in Nigeria and Africa. Johnson commended IBM for their renewed focus and commitment to Nigeria after a long history of operations in Nigeria. She stated that IBM’s investment in an innovation centre, research funding and training and development of local skills was a welcome response to the Ministry’s continued call for multi-national IT companies to partner with the Ministry to develop a local ICT industry that can take advantage of the tremendous opportunities in the ICT sector.
She expressed confidence that other multi-nationals would follow the bold steps of IBM and commit to a mutually beneficial partnership arrangements that reflected the volumes of business they were doing in the country.
By Ben Uzor Jr
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Nigeria: IBM to Establish Innovation Centre in Nigeria International Business Machine IBM says it would establish an innovation centre in Nigeria by the first quarter of 2014 The company has also disclosed plans to fund major Information Communication Technology ICT research projects which would complement the efforts of the Ministry of Communications Technology iDEA incubation centres and other ICT entrepreneurs to make Nigeria an ICT hub for software innovation Virginia ‘Ginni’ Rometty chairman president and chief executive officer of the IBM made this know during a working visit to the ministry in Abuja
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