NITDA, DWTC discuss Nigeria’s participation at GITEX startup movement

Nigeria and the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), organisers of the annual GITEX Technology Week, have exchanged notes on how to better expose the country’s ICT startups featuring in this year’s Gitex Technology Week billed to hold in October. Nigeria’s participation at the GITEX Startup Movement is being facilitated by the National Information Technology Development […]

Nigeria and the Dubai World Trade Centre (DWTC), organisers of the annual GITEX Technology Week, have exchanged notes on how to better expose the country’s ICT startups featuring in this year’s Gitex Technology Week billed to hold in October.
Nigeria’s participation at the GITEX Startup Movement is being facilitated by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA).
About 16 Nigerian startups will be joining over 400 startups and more than 1,000 entrepreneurs, investors and mentors from the global startup ecosystem which see about $100, 000 go to the winning startups.
“Nigeria is committed to promoting startups. It has even become more strategic as the country seeks to aggressively re-engineer its economy earn Forex from non-oil sectors. We are participating in the GITEX Startup Movement to expose our own startups and see how they can leverage on the event to improve their entrepreneurship. At NITDA, we believe that our youths have the wherewithal to excel anywhere in the world, what is needed is to build capacity in them and also give them exposure. We are glad to be working with you to gain these benefits,” a statement quoted from Dr Vincent Olatunji, the acting Director General of NITDA as saying.