Stakeholders Name LOC For Digital Summit

The Local Organising
Committee (LOC) for the 2016 Innovation Africa Digital (IAD) Summit being hosted by Galaxy Backbone Ltd. and the Federal Government  in partnership with Extensia UK, has been inaugurated in Abuja.
The summit is to hold from April 19 to April 20. This is contained in a statement issued in Abuja on Thursday by Mr Frankly Ginger-Eke, Manager Stakeholders Management of Galaxy Backbone Ltd.
Ginger-Eke said Mr Owoicho Igoji, the Vice-Chairman of the Summit Planning Team while inaugurating the 10-man LOC, said that the IAD Summit was a continental ICT stakeholder engagement platform held annually across the African continent.
According to him, Igoji further informed members that before now, the IAD was held successfully in 13 countries, adding that Nigeria was selected to host the 2016 event due to recent developments in the telecoms and ICT sector.
“While rebasing her economy in 2014, the huge contribution of the sector to the Nigerian GDP played a major role in Nigeria’s emergence as the largest economy in Africa .
“Which contributed significantly to the recent rebasing of Nigerian economy making the largest African economy based on GDP.
He said Mr Igoji, who is also the Chairman of the LOC, informed the committee that the Terms of Reference (ToR) for the LOC were carefully structured in a manner that would ensure the successful execution of the event.
“The ToR have been structured in a manner that makes it possible to plan and deliver the event end to end.
“It will also help to guide deliberations of the LOC and the execution of assigned tasks.