IT Edge Magazine Debuts

The print edition of IT Edge, multi-channels technology business news media debuts this week in Lagos and Accra. A public unveiling is slated for Sheraton, Lagos. It is to circulate across country in Nigeria. In Ghana, it would debut in both Accra and Kumasi. The web edition,
www.itedgenews.com has been running since early June as a business technology news portal.

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 print edition offers another window to access researched issue-centred business technology stories inside the continent.

“Our goal is simple: to provide a credible news source on policy and development issues in IT as it affects Africa and Africans. We want to offer the business with the IT community as well as other stakeholders in Nigeria and elsewhere on the continent in-depth facts on the emerging market. Right decisions within the corporate sector depends on hard facts and whether investors would come to the continent or not also depends on the facts and figures within their reach. Our business is to provide this information,” said Dr Emmanuel Ekuwem, President of Knowledge Media International (KMI) Limited, publishers of IT Edge magazine and proprietary owners of www.itedgenews.com.

KMI is incorporated in Nigeria as a multi-channels technology business news media organisation. Its other channel for news delivery is an SMS newsbreak platform. Audio and video streams are available on line. They are also to run independently as TV and radio slots in local radio and TV stations. Final agreements are to be concluded this week. Technology business news delivery is only a part of KMI’s objectives.

The company is primarily a technology business intelligence organisation and has already outlined sectoral programmes for execution this year. It is also fine-tuning partnership with other players focussed on IT development.

To execute its plans, an editorial director Segun Oruame was appointed in June. Former IT editor of The Comet national news daily, Oruame was until his recent appointment, the editor of IT & Telecom Digest
magazine. He is also to guide the company’s business blueprint as its CEO.IT Edge enjoys the rare priviledge of benefiting from the management think-tank of successful industry leaders ho make up the management advisory group (MAG) the board in their advisory capacity are Mrs. Florence Seriki, CEO of Omatek Computers Mr. Austin Okere, Group CEO of Computer Warehouse Group, and Alhaji Ladi Ogunneye, CEO of Data Sciences Limited
and immediate past president of the NCS.

It is also guided by an editorial advisory group (EAG) consisting of renowned names in the IT industry. They include Dr Gabriel Obi, who heads the CPN, Mr. Chris Uwaje, CEO of C… and Mr. Ayo Arowolo, Editorial Chairman of the Financial Standard.

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