Archive for April, 2010

Agenda building for Barcamp Nigeria 2010 holding on the 22nd of May 2010, at CITS Unilag, Lagos Nigeria.

Please feel free to add more to the content below. Anyone who wishes to announce a product launch should list the product here so as to help in allocating time for each products.

We will also be glad to include as many people has we deem fit to join the panels. We have just two panels with each having its own topic.
Please guys, no “AFRICAN TIME” please, please, and please. For us to create a new Nigeria, we must become new Nigerians and to compete globally, we must operate on global time. Below is the snapshot of the event details, please use the comment box below to added to it or use the wiki available here to edit. If there is any review, we will update ASAP.

Registration 9am-10am
Welcome message 10am-10:10am
Keynote Speech 10:10-10:30am
Panel (Local content) 10:35-11:20am
Tea Break 11:20-11:40am
CodeCamp (to kickstart collaboration) 11:40am-1:40pm
Keynote Speech 2 1:45pm- 2:05pm
Break out Session 2:05-2:50pm
Lunch 2:50-3:20pm
Panel (business models) 3:20-4:10pm
Votes/Winners Announcement /Product Launch 4:10-4:40pm
Vote of thanks 4:40-4:50pm
Networking Closing session 4:50pm -5pm

We urge everyone to come with their libraries handy(or a chosen framework) as we all will be participating in a Codecamp on that day. So fast development time is very crucial.

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As technology development continues on the African scene… Barcamp Nigeria publicly support Barcamp Africa holding in Abidjan Cote d’ivore between 4th and 7th June 2010. We want all Nigerian technologist to represent Nigeria at the event. Why not add the event to your schedule.

Nigeria has not been visible in the web startup as it should on the African scene, we believe this will kickstart the effort to put Nigeria on the Africa map.

Official Barcamp Africa Page here.

As we wind down to this year’s barcamp Nigeria 2010, it’s my pleasure to announce some of our sponsors for this year!

Google has been in the forefront of technology advancement across the globe, they have also shown considerable interest in Africa technology scene. To further bring the development down to Nigeria, Google has shown interest to become a sponsor of this event.

University of Lagos; yeah… unilag as it’s fondly called is also sponsoring this year’s event. They are giving us the Centre For Information Technology and Systems (CITS) Hall for usage.The hall have the capacity to take has much as 300. So, come one come all!

Creative Commons: site available here… a group committed to knowledge sharing across the globe is also among of our sponsors for this year.

E-Motion Advertising offers advertisers dynamic, professionally designed adverts on state of the art LED billboards. E-Motion is licensed by relevant municipal authorities and regulators to build and operate the Digital Outdoor Advertising Network. Based in Abuja, Nigeria.

We have received interest from various firms to sponsor this event, if you still want to be part of the history in the making, why not talk to us today to sponsor us as we take Nigerian technology development to the next level.

View list of our sponsors on “Sponsors page“

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