Lagos State, the commercial nerve centre of Nigeria will in October 2008 play host to the world as the Association of Telecommunications Companies of Nigeria (ATCON) presents ComBIT 2008 Expo – an annual international exhibition and conference designed for the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector. The event will hold in the prestigious MUSON Centre October 20 – 22, 2008.
ComBIT Expo is a product of ATCON’s strategic re-branding of NICOMM Exhibitions & Conferences organised annually by the ATCON in collaboration with the Ministry of Information & Communications, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) as well as other industry stakeholders since 1995. Worried by the absence of an all encompassing global ICT event in Nigeria despite the current revolution in the ICT market, ATCON as the umbrella ICT industry Association decided to re-strategize, partner with relevant local and international industry players and stakeholders to float a mega ICT expo that will attract global and regional ICT operators and experts to Nigeria every year.
The plan of ATCON and its collaborators is to grow ComBIT expo into a flagship and globally recognized ICT event in Nigeria and Africa with a view to further stimulating the development of our ICT industry through more local and foreign direct investment into the sector.
ComBIT expo is designed to provide a veritable platform for stimulating commercial partnerships between foreign principals and local representatives, dealers, distributors and resellers of ICT and allied products and services in Nigeria. It will further offer ample opportunities for investors to explore and exploit the abundant market opportunities in the very vibrant ICT sector in Nigeria and Africa. It is a good platform for advanced markets to display its cutting edge technologies, especially in the mobile communications sector to the African market which will for a long time present the highest market potentials for new technologies.
ATCON has taken cognizance of the fact that ICT has a pivotal role to play in the actualization of VISION 2010 which the Federal government in Nigeria has set out to achieve. ATCON believes that through the yearly ComBIT Expo, huge foreign investments will continue to flow into our country’s economy. This will, by extension, facilitate the development of other critical economic sectors that are currently dormant. Eventually, our economy will rise to the level of the Asian tigers which have become case studies for the world economy today.
On the other hand, a boisterous economy will continue to create new markets for ICT products as more business will depend heavily on new technologies to grow their businesses and take them to the next levels. ATCON believes that ComBIT expo will contribute meaningfully to the achievements of the above economic advancements in Nigeria both in the long and short run.
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