As a result of the nationwide hardship protest planned to commence on the 1st of August across the country, the Southeast World-class Digital Summit, scheduled to happen in Enugu today has been postponed.
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the summit will not how on the 19th of September, the organizers have said.
The Chief Executive Officer of Michnet Concept International, organizers of the summit, Engr Mike Nebo, made the disclosure on during a chat with newsmen in Awka.
The summit, is expected to convoke individuals, groups, students, governments, and representatives of every sector of the economy, including Health, Education, Agriculture, Tourism, Finance, and Communication, among others, with a view to educating, training, and empowering them with digital tools that will improve their efficiency.
It will feature lectures, breakout sessions, exhibitions, and interactive sessions, designed to birth opportunities for the development of tech solutions that will foster growth across sectors of the region’s economy.
Addressing a press conference, Engr Nebo said the postponement is to ensure that the summit yields the desired result.
According to Nebo, while they await the new date, they consulted various state governments in the region and their responses have been quite encouraging.
“The Southeast States’ Governments are excited about this summit because our coming to train their workforce will be a major plus for them, in terms of improving their efficiency.
“We want to commend the governors for their efforts at leveraging technology to make a change in the society,” he said.
Nebo, who spoke on the benefits of the summit, said it will expand into an online training where workers across the various states will be taken through course on Artificial Intelligence, AI, and other tech packages.
“We are in partnership with a US group to see how participants can have a market to promote and sell their works.
“Following our engagement with the Enugu State Governor, Peter Mbah, we have started developing an e-commerce software that will help our people explore technology in business activities. We are also thinking of how to scale it to other states.
“This e-commerce software will help develop a comprehensive database of everyone in the state and to make online trading easy. Individuals, through the platform, can put in their products once they register and the backend people will identify what they need and purchase.
“It is important to note that this initiative comes on a zero-funding basis for the state governments. All they require is provide the platform. We are not requesting money from the government to run the initiative.
“Although, we have private people running similar things as an enterprise, we believe that when the government comes fully with its platforms, we would be able to reach more people and achieve greater impact,” Nebo noted.
The tech expert, who said tech companies in the region are now uniting to provide solutions to the ailing economy of the country and the region, stressed that if the region and its governments can fully take advantage of the enablements of the ICT, the region will become a hub for technology in no distant time.
“This is not a summit for government alone. Yes, we need the collaboration of government, but the private sector has a crucial role to play,” he concluded.
On her part, the media consultant to Michnet Concepts, Mrs Ify Aronu-Okafor said the summit aims to transform the Southeast region with digital technologies in diverse ways.
“Irrespective of what you do, there is a way you can plug in with the e-commerce software that is being developed and derive maximum benefits. This is because it was developed to create solutions across various spheres of human endeavor,” she said.
On the postponement, Aronu-Okafor said the organizers decided to empathize with Nigerians over the hardship, adding that the shift also affords them the opportunity to plan the Summit better for the economic emancipation of the youths in the Southeast.
“Interested participants should visit www.southeastdigitalsummit.com and register for free. Then follow our YouTube channel.
“The summit will also be streamed live across all the states of the Southeast.
“For further inquiries, you can call 07069697730,” she disclosed.
