Press release: Barcamp Nigeria 2010: Creating local content for Nigerian web market
Monday, March 22nd, 2010By Adesina Mutiu-Okediran
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 2nd edition in the history of Nigeria’s IT industry. The event will take place on Saturday, 22nd 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.
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 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.
For more information, please visit www.barcampnigeria.com or contact Shittu Sheriff on 08096880957
Email: barcampnigeria at gmail.com
Twitter: www.twitter.com/BarCampNigeria
March 22nd, 2010 at 9:36 am
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April 13th, 2010 at 3:34 am
Great work, looking forward to travel down for the programme, won’t mind anyway i could be of help.