Nigeria Holds IPv6 Roundtable

Nkem Nweke, Executive Director, Operations

DigitalSENSE Africa (DSA)Media in collaboration with Nigeria Communications Commission and other stakeholders in the Nigeria ICT ecosystem will  hold IPv6 Roundtable 2011,with the theme “IPv6 – Join theplayers” scheduled for Thursday, June 2, 2011 at PlanetOne, Maryland Lagos by 9:00am.

According to the Executive Director Operations at DSA, Mrs Nken Nweke, the aim of this roundtable is to provide a platform for all stakeholders in the country to share IPv6 knowledge and experience, chart a roadmap for early transition to IPv6 as IPv4 addresses run out; promote IPv6-enabled products and services in addition to providing a platform for networking on this very important subject.

It also aims at creating awareness of the Future Internet and potential impact on the country’s economy, encourage participation of Nigeria stakeholders in the Second Internet Initiatives, encouraging greater Research& Development plus investment in activities around the Future Internet.

In addition, it is worthy to note that the World IPv6 Day slated for June 8 is a strategy to encourage successful migration to IPv6 through participation of some key Internet Service Providers like Google, Facebook, Yahoo!, Akamai and Limelight networks to offer their contents over IPv6 only for a 24-hour period.

The goal of the Test Flight Day is to motivate organizations across the industry – regulators, operators, Internet service providers, hardware makers, operating system vendors, content providers, manufacturers, web companies and key stakeholders; to ensure a successful transition as IPv4 addresses run out. The Internet is now the global communication network and to join this evolution, Nigerian stakeholders need to integrate IPv6 in all areas.

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Digital Bridge boss to chair Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable

The president of the Digital Bridge Institute (DBI), Prof. Raymond Akwule has been confirmed as the chairman of the 2012 Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable due to hold on June 6 in Lagos.

The Executive Director, Operations at DigitalSENSE Africa Media, Mrs. Nkemdilim Nweke, the organizers of Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable, disclosed this in Lagos, saying that Prof. Akwule would be supported by industry heavy-weights during the commemoration of World Internet Protocol version 6 day.

According to her, the IPv6 Roundtable slated to hold at the Welcome Centre and Hotels, Lagos, would be presided over by telecommunications professors or international repute.

While urging industry players to take advantage of the event to address and share preparations at their ends on migration to IPv6 in the country, she noted that participants are bound to benefit from the wealth of experience of  Akwule, who currently is the President of DBI, an international centre for advanced communications studies.

Nweke also noted that with over 25 years of teaching, research, and project planning and implementation experience in the fields of telecommunications and Information Technology as well as Mass Communications and Media Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia USA, Akwule would enrich the day with his enlightened exposure.

Equally, as a Senior Fellow, International Cyber Center at George Mason University, she pointed out that Prof. Akwule would gave some insights on the theme “IPv6 and the future of Internet in Nigeria.”

She revealed that Akwule who authored ‘Global Telecommunications:
The Technology, Administration and Policies’ published by Butterworth- Heinemann and widely used as text in several major universities in the United States and beyond among other articles.

Stressing that he also taught numerous undergraduate, Masters and Doctorate
level courses in several universities in the USA, before joining DBI, recalling that as a former Director, Center for Telecommunications Information and Broadcasting, which later become the Center for Media Research and Telecommunications at the Department of Communication, George Mason University, Akwule was one of the founders of the MA Telecommunications programmes at the same university.

Akwule, she noted has been an advisor to many countries in the area of ICT,  telecommunications and Media, even as he spearheaded the design and implementation of several national ICT networks as well as e-government, e-commerce and e-education programmes on the continent of Africa.

Just as he served as a consultant to numerous governments, international organizations and international and national private sector companies, including the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), International Telecommunications Union (ITU), World Bank, UN Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA) to name a few.

The organizers recalled that the objective of Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable is to stimulate public discourse and create awareness on the technological cum business benefits of IPv6, encourage integration of it into all aspects of networking and telecommunications infrastructure in the country, commemorate the World IPV6 Day on Wednesday June 6, as well as providing first-class platform for networking.

Noteworthy, she said, is that the last batch of the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses were given out by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) last year, 2011, as such it became imperative for the deployment of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).

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Akwule to chair Nigeria IPv6 roundtable

Prof. Akwule, DBI President

The president of the Digital Bridge Institute, DBI, Prof. Raymond Akwule has been confi rmed as the chairman of the 2012 Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable due to hold on June 6 in Lagos.

The Executive Director, Operations at DigitalSENSE Africa Media, Nkemdilim Nweke, the organizers of Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable, disclosed this in Lagos, saying that Prof. Akwule would be supported by industry heavy-weights during the commemoration of World Internet Protocol version 6 day.

According to her, the IPv6 Roundtable slated to hold at the Welcome Centre and Hotels, Lagos, would be presided over by telecommunications professors of international repute.

While urging industry players to take advantage of the event to address and share preparations at their ends on migration to IPv6 in the country, she noted that participants are bound to benefi t from the wealth of experience of Prof. Akwule, who is currently the President of DBI, an international centre for advanced communications studies.

Nweke also noted that with over 25 years of teaching, research, and project planning and implementation experience in the fi elds of telecommunications and Information Technology as well as Mass Communications and Media Studies at George Mason University in Fairfax Virginia USA, Prof. Akwule would enrich the day with his enlightened exposure.

Equally, as a Senior Fellow, International Cyber Center at George Mason University, she pointed out that Prof. Akwule would give some insights on the theme “IPv6 and the future of Internet in Nigeria.”

She revealed that Prof. Akwule who authored ‘Global Telecommunications: The Technology, Administration and Policies’ published by Butterworth-Heinemann and widely used as text in several major universities in the United States and beyond among other articles.

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Nigeria IPV6 Roundtable 2012 is set - Organiser

This was confirmed by the Executive Director, Operations, DigitalSENSE Africa Media, Mrs. Nkemdilim Nweke, told newsmen in Lagos at the weekend that every arrangement have been made to certain the event not only holds but successful.

“We have put necessary machineries in place to ensure a successful Nigeria IPV6 Roundtable this year,” she asserted.

Mrs. Nweke noted that the one-day roundtable has received massive support from the industry stakeholders across the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).

She also said that the event billed to hold on Wednesday, June 6, this year would witness a keynote address by the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Eugene Juwah on “IPv6 and the future of Internet in Nigeria.”

She said that though the World IPV6 2011 comes up on Wednesday June 6, her organizers alongside interested stakeholders to host the Nigeria IPV6 Roundtable on Thursday, June 2, 2011; ahead of the global date for the commemoration of IPV6 to put Nigerians on notice of the impeding ‘test flight’ migration.

This, she explained would mean that on Wednesday, June 8 most of the global Internet service providers like Google and Yahoo among others would only offer services on IPV6 platform.

Participants to the forthcoming Nigeria IPV6 Roundtable, she further said, would have a lot to learn as various experts have been lined up for the roundtable to exchange ideas as well as network.

She recalled that following the allocation of the last batch of the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) it became imperative for the deployment of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).

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Invitation to Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable 2012

The Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable is an annual event which acts as a rallying point for Nigerian internet stakeholders in raising and addressing salient issues concerning the ICT sector with particular reference to Internet Protocol version 6-related issues and development in Nigeria.

Details of the Roundtable are as follows:

Theme:           IPv6 and the Future of Internet in Nigeria

Time:               9:00am

Date:               Wednesday, June 6th, 2012

Venue:           Welcome Centre & Hotels, International Airport Road, Lagos

  

The mission is to stimulate public discourse and create awareness on the technological cum business benefits of this rapid advancing technology,  encourage integration of IPv6 into all aspects of networking and telecommunications infrastructure in the country, commemorate the World IPV6 Day, as well as providing first-class platform for networking.

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Call for Entry - DigitalSENSE Africa Media Students’ Essay Contest 2012 on IG4D

DigitalSENSE Africa Media has announced its annual Essay Competition on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D). Topic: "Internet Governance and Mobile Economy in Nigeria."
The annual DigitalSENSE Africa essay competition is open to students between the ages of 18 to 30 years. Interested candidates are to write an essay not more than 600 words on the above topic.
Entries are to be submitted on or before April 27th, 2012 to                                 info@digitalsenseafrica.com.ng and copy remnekkv@gmail.com.
Winning selected essay will be published in our internationally-award winning ITRealms Online with profiling of the winner. Also, the winner will be sponsored to attend the forthcoming West African Internet Governance Forum scheduled for July 2-4, 2012 in Sierra Leone.

What our Panel of Judges are looking for:
1.    An essay that examines various advantages and disadvantages of topic of the year.
2.    The role of internet governance to the success or otherwise.
3.    Written in simple and clear language
4.    A Contestant must be a Nigerian student
5.    Proper identification of contestants: scanned copy of student ID
6.    Essay not in excess of 600 words on the above topic.
7.    One entry per contestant
8.    Originality, Clarity, Grammar and Presentation.

For further inquiries:
Executive Director, Operations
234-809900183
info@digitalsenseafrica.com.ng
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‘Cybercrime market worth $114bn’

Muhammed Rudman, Chief Executive of the Nigeria Internet Exchange Point has said that the cybercrime poses more worry to global economy, not only Nigeria , as its worth now stands at $114 billion.

He said it was now more dangerous than the global black market for illicit drugs.

Speaking at the just concluded 2012 edition of DigitalSENSE Africa forum on Internet Governance for Development (IG4D), Mr Rudman said: “the direct cash costs of cybercrime - money stolen by cyberthugs and spent on resolving cyberattacks - totalled $114bn. Cybercrime is bigger than the global black market in marijuana, cocaine and heroin combined ($288bn)” 

He said 10 per cent of all adults surveyed had experienced cybercrime on their mobile devices  Over the past year in 24 countries, 431 million adults experienced cybercrime. More than 1 million became victims every day, and 12 adults suffered from cybercrime every second.”

His observation came on the heel of the commencement of the pilot phase of the Central Bank of Nigeria ’s (CBN) cash-lite policy.

The new policy on cash-based transactions stipulates a ‘cash handling charge’ on daily cash withdrawals or cash deposits that exceed N150,000 for Individuals and N1,000,000 for corporate bodies.

The new policy on cash-based transactions (withdrawals & deposits) in banks is aimed at  reducing the amount of physical cash circulating in the economy, and encouraging more electronic-based transactions (payments for goods, services, transfers, etc.)

To avoid the frauds, he prescribed that people keep their password/PIN code safe and memorise them.

“Make sure you change them regularly (recommended every 3 months). Create unique passwords that are difficult to guess, e.g. use a combination of letters (Upper & lower case) and numbers.

 ”Passwords are like underwear: you don’t let people see it, you should change it very often, and you shouldn’t share it with strangers,” he added, quoting Chris Pirillo

He also counselled that people use secured website. “How do you know the website is secured? Look for https:// in the URL and not http:// when you login - Look at the status bar of the security icon (locked padlock) when you visit the bank site. Double click on the padlock and ensure that it has a valid digital certificate.

“Log out immediately after you have completed your Internet transaction. Then, clear the browser cache, cookies and history (refer to your bank’s website for online guidance). Ensure that you log out properly after every Internet banking session and not just close the browser.

“Never leave your computer unattended when you are conducting your Internet transactions.

“If you are unsure of the security of the computer, do not use it for Internet transactions. Do not use public (Internet Café) computers to login to your account, it is very very possible it has Keyloggers,” he explained.

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