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

Happy New Year to you all!

It’s been a while here on NaijaWebGeek; it’s usually not easy updating a blog as a part-time blogger and especially when you have limited access to the internet.

Since the beginning of the year, a lot has been happening on the web scene, especially on the Naija web scene which I quickly want to update/remind you of.

• On  the 1^st of January, Loy Okezie of Startups Nigeria officially released a Beta Version2.0 of Startups Nigeria.

Startups Nigeria 2.0 is a youth-driven, online community for technology enthusiasts, internet start-ups, companies, entrepreneurs, investors and students, all pioneering innovations in Nigeria’s emerging

start-up industry and social media space.

With the new Startups Nigeria platform (currently on beta), users can create their personal profile, ad

d and promote their start-ups, share their start-up stories, photos, videos, follow other start-ups, find ideal start-up partners, find technology-related jobs, find entrepreneurs and investors and lots more.

• Still on Loy Okezie, he wrote an interesting article via his personal blog on 10 Nigeria’s web startups to watch in 2010. Not minding the different challenges, Nigerian Web Entreprenuers are coming up in full force this year 2010, we can only wish them the best. Read the Article Here.

• A group of Nigerians are organising the Nigeria Web Conference (NWC) to hold later this year. The conference was initiated on Nairaland (Naija’s foremost forum) some months back and their website launched 7th January, 2010.

According to the organisers:
The Nigeria Web Conference is the premier conference on Web Development modularity, with an emphasis on modular structures that cut across traditional abstraction boundaries. The conference which bring together leading Developers and IT Practitioners working in such fields as software engineering, programming, systems administrating, graphic designing, and others.

The NWC is also committed to supporting students working in all areas of Web Development via a dedicated Student Forum programme.

A visit to their website suggests work in still on-going on the website,  you can stay also stay updated by joining the facebook page here.

• Still on Web Conference, preparations are in top gear for the Technology Times Web innovators Forum to hold between the 2^nd – 4^th of February, 2010. More here

• Nominations are still going on for Nigerian Web Awards on Web Trends Nigeria – So go ahead and nominate your website of choice in the different categories.

• Have you signed the petition for the Cybercrime Bill for Nigeria sponsored by Gbenga Sesan? Read his post on A Bill in Time Saves (Cyber) Crime! and Sign the petition here

I will be back with more updates soon.