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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The blog post is culled from ICTWorks.org -

Nigeria is the Giant of Africa, with 1/8 of its population and all the possibilities and problems that come with such size and diversity. It also should be the ICT leader for Africa.

Nigeria has the more mobile phone subscribers, at 68 million, than Egypt or South Africa. And more Internet users, 11 million, than South Africa, and almost as many as Egypt. But it doesn’t have the buzz of either. In fact, it doesn’t even have the buzz of Ghana or Kenya, which combined still do not compare with Nigeria’s size. Why?

Explore the issues behind Nigeria’s silence and the opportunities that do remain, at the next ICT4D Skype Chat:

• Nigeria Internet Business Opportunities
  ICT4D Skype Public Chat
  6pm, Lagos Time, March 26th
  (find in your timezone)

Like our Twitter Chats, this will be a freewheeling conversation around our central topic – Nigerian Internet business opportunities – using the Skype Public Chat function. Be sure to get Skype to join us as we discuss:

1. What are the online business opportunities in Nigeria?
2. Are they greater than in Ghana or Kenya?
3. How can Nigeria regain or extend her lead in online business?

This Skype chat will also feature four noted Internet experts discussing Nigerian Business opportunities:

• Loy Okezie of StartupsNigeria
• Oladejo Fabolude of Digital Crossings
• Sheriff Shittu O. of WebTrends Nigeria
• Oluniyi David Ajao of Web4Africa

So what are you waiting for? Put the ICT4D Skype Chat in your calender now!