CFAmedia.ng today, features Peter Oluka as the guest writer for this week
Wow! Just like yesterday, it is barely a year that the last Nigeria Int’l Technology Exhibition & Conference (NITEC) was held, featuring experienced speakers with robust knowledge of technology.
First, congratulations to as many people who graced the occasion which recorded over 1000 participants.
More edifying is that testimonies continue to pour giving credence to NITEC as specifically designed to showcase the best in the technology ecosystem and discuss key issues on innovation.
As usual, burning issues on Big Data, analytics, and applications for/by Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs) form the theme for this year’s NITEC.
First, on May 17, World Telecommunication and Information Society Day (WTISD) was observed under the theme “Big Data for Big Impact.” Yes, quite captivating as reflected on the International Telecommunications Union (ITU’s) message for the day: “Using Big Data to understand how the universe works.”
So, speakers and participants at NITEC 2017 holding at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos State, on July 4, shall be exploring how Big Data can help solve the world’s/SMEs challenges.
So, speakers and participants at NITEC 2017 holding at Sheraton Hotel, Ikeja, Lagos State, on July 4, shall be exploring how Big Data can help solve the world’s/SMEs challenges.
As the Nigerian Tech ecosystem is growing by the day, the need to create platforms and structures that will further deepen the conversation and help innovations improve. Today, there is no gainsaying the SMEs require a lot of data. And data needs processing power.
Yes, as innovators we need to understand what is going on in the disruptive space: digital media, robotics, internet of things, hardware, starts, etc.
“Big Data can mean many things. … To me, ‘Big Data’ means unstructured, random Big Data that some algorithm has to make sense out of.
This applies to ATLAS as well as Facebook,” Dr. Cameron Researcher at the University of Oslo, who is responsible for the ATLAS@Home program at CERN on the benefits of Big Data for scientific research, said.
“For science, the advantage is being able to collect way more information than we ever could before, but the disadvantage is that we have to have way more complicated algorithms and techniques to extract what we need from that data.”
“If we didn’t have a means of handling Big Data, then we couldn’t do the physics that we need to do,” Dr. Cameron explained.
Speakers at different fora have asked, “when will Africa have its Facebook, Google, Twitter, LinkedIn, etc.” Well, we have to start somewhere. For instance, in communications where the traditional operators have enjoyed sort of gilded opportunities, technological advancement in the sector has intruded in the esoteric state of being.
Simply put, to be prepared/partake in technological disruptions is to understand the world of Big Data, the analytics, and applications. Prepare to be at NITEC.
Peter Oluka is a journalist at the Nigerian CommunicationsWeek
