Nigeria Internetworld Conference and Exhibition (NICE) is an annual event which provides education, empowerment, networking, business opportunities for Nigerians. It is a gathering of Internet based businesses, service providers, e-Commerce providers and experts that are involved in online marketing, e-commerce technology, web technology and development, content development and management.

The idea is to create a platform where Nigerians will be educated and empowered with the latest development in the world of Internet. This event is meant to spark up the Internet for Business (I4B) revolution in Nigeria and encourage entrepreneurship.

This year’s event tagged NICE2010:

The theme: Internet for Business (I4b): Empowering Nigerians through the Internet.

Date: May 5-6,2010

Venue: Expo Centre, Lagos

Focus
-Internet access and Connectivity
-E-commerce and Digital marketing
-Web technology and development
-Internet security
-Social media
-Content development
-Internet and its application in different fields like media, medicine, governance, security
-Internet Trends and Business opportunities like domain name business, web hosting etc.
-Legislation

Why the Event
The event will:
-Empower Nigerians with the business potentials of the Internet
-It will encourage online business in Nigeria
-It will spark up entrepreneurship
-It provides the latest web based strategy, development, marketing skills, technology
-It will help reduce cyber crimes in Nigeria
-It will help in rebranding our image around the world.

To Register – HERE

Culled from NICE2010

The date and theme  for this year’s Barcamp Nigeria has been officially released.

BarCamp is simply an ‘unconference’ – an ad-hoc gathering of people with the simple desire to share and learn in an open environment. Unlike a conference, at a barcamp everyone is both a speaker and a participant. The content is provided by all attendees based on their interests.

According to the organisers:

The theme is “Creating local content for Nigerian web market”, which will be the 2^nd edition in the history of Nigeria’s IT industry. The event will take place on Saturday, 22^nd of May 2010 at CITS University of Lagos.

The selected Keynote speakers for this year’s barcamp Nigeria have been confirmed. They are Simdul Shagaya, the Founder of Alarena.com and Chinenye Mba-Ozoukwo of eShekel.
The two speakers have firm grasp of the Nigerian technology market and will be pleased to share their insight with us at the event.

Though, I was not at last year’s event, you can read about it on  Startups Nigeria.

The Nigerian Web space is gathering momentum and I see this event as another opportunity to learn/exploit the ever increasing advantages of the Web – so I hope to be there.

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Update: Register for Barcamp Nigeria 2010