Archive for March, 2010

The organizers of the Barcamp Nigeria has announced the date for the 2010 edition. 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.

Last year’s Barcamp Nigeria was organized in Lagos by the duo of Tim Akinbo and Ayodeji Adewunmi and other web community members, it was hugely successful! The event to a large extent created avenue for Nigerian web technologist to network. In the spirit of the event, webtrendsng.com has volunteered to spearhead the event this year.
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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.
Barcamp Nigeria 2010 will be holding on the 22nd of May at the CITS in University of Lagos. Theme; Creating Local Content for Nigerian Web Market.
I wrote recently about slots for volunteers, if you are interested in joining the team to make this happen, you can drop your contact below or send us an email: barcampnigeria [at] gmail.com.