Niger Delta will host one of the four National Cluster Groups on Big Data and Analytics, which holds its inaugural conference next month in Abuja, Nigeria’s capital territory.
The conference, a free public service event, entitled ‘Nigeria for Big Data—how to leverage opportunities and over-come challenges,’ is organised by the United Kingdom-based KIE Conference in partnership with the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), will hold on 28 November at Baze University in Abuja.
Henry Seriake Dickson, Bayelsa State governor, Emmanuel Uduaghan, Delta State governor, Godswill Akpabio, Akwa Ibom State governor, Owelle Rochas Okorocha, Imo State Governor, and Dr Mu’azu Babangida Aliyu, Niger State governor have all been invited to give keynote remarks at the conference.
The big data analytics cluster groups are a network of research and knowledge transfer specialist centres, first of its kind in Africa. The Federal University Otuoke will house the Big Data, Energy, Oil & Gas Analytics Group. The conference will feature opening remarks from the Federal Capital Territory minister and the state governors of Akwa Ibom, Imo, Delta and Niger. The twin big data-event is expected to will be declared opened by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan.
Professor James Ogunleye, Editor of the Journal of Developments in Big Data and Analytics and chairman of the conference said: “Academics at the Federal University Otuoke already has a considerable expertise in energy and environmental research.”
He added: “By engaging in big data and business analytics Niger Delta will be at the centre of Nigeria’s $200 billion big data market, a market with a real potential to displace oil and gas as the dominant sector of the Nigerian economy.”
