IT Edge Tech-biz News Portal Launched
A business technology news portal www.itedgenews.com has been launched in Lagos. The news portal is designed to deliver online real-time technology business news as they break on the continent. It is geared at serving as the primary source of information on IT businesses, government policies, professionals, careers, events and projects in Africa. Specifically, it will provide news coverage for the West African sub-region undergoing pulsating changes in its budding IT sector.
The site provides links to other news sources, particularly those regarded as web-based windows for technology business developments in Africa. "We want to provide a credible news source on policy and development issues in IT as it affects Africa and Africans. Nigeria is our focus but so is the rest of West Africa and all of the developing economies, especially those countries that have been able to use IT to leapfrog such as India," said Dr Emmanuel Ekuwem, President of Knowledge Media International (KMI) Limited, proprietary owners of www.itedgenews.com.
KMI is incorporated in Nigeria as a multi-channels technology business news media organisation. The websites which offers SMS, audio and video streams in its news delivery is an ICT magazine conceived as a sister model for IT Edge magazine, due for launch early next month. Both the hardcopy and online magazine of IT Edge will offer insightful reports; research-focused news analyses; technology business forecast and survey in line with the KMI's payoff - technology business news as you go.
"Adequate research work has gone into building these models to ensure that they serve as issue-centred and reliable source of up-to-date information for the IT community in Africa and those in diasporas," said Ekumem who is also the president of the Nigerian Internet Group (NIG). An official launch of the website will coincide with that of the hard copy version in July. The site is managed by Web Inn.
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