2019 BLOGGERS SUMMIT: MAXIMIZING TECHNOLOGY TO BUILD PROFITABLE BLOGGING BUSINESSES

The Internet and particularly social media has revolutionized the way news, views and opinions are expressed and consumed in our society today. Coming on the heels of this revolution is the menace of fake news and hate speech. It has become imperative that those who communicate online must do so with due regards for decorum. There is therefore the need to educate our people, thereby enabling useful and responsible online communication.

Bloggers are at the core of online social influence in our society, with many becoming prominent and influential. Considering the number of bloggers in Nigeria and the need to create a healthy atmosphere for their creativity to blossom in the blogging sphere, Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) provides a platform (The Bloggers Summit) to bring bloggers and content developers together to interact, develop and improve not only their blogging skills but also their content, business management and technical skills. 

The Nigeria Internet Registration Association (NiRA) is pleased to invite all bloggers, aspiring bloggers, journalists, content developers, media entrepreneurs and stakeholders within the internet community to the 2nd edition of her Bloggers Summit themed “Maximizing Technology to Build Profitable Blogging Businesses”. The event is a one-day summit scheduled to hold on Tuesday 26th November 2019 from 9:00am to 3:30pm at Royal Damgrete Hotel, 13-16 Factory Road, GRA, Umuahia, Abia State. 

The objectives of the summit are to:

• encourage stellar online behavior within the internet and blogging community by providing legal, ethical and technical trainings;
• stimulate the industry by ensuring that Bloggers develop and publish content relevant to the society and around burning issues such as Internet Governance; 
• encourage responsible journalism through blogging
• create job and wealth opportunities for Nigerians 

Interested participants are kindly requested to register via the link https://nira.org.ng/blogger2019

Since this is a community event, NiRA invites other stakeholders and sponsors to be a part of the Summit. There will be opportunities to take on booths, to exhibit products and services. Interested sponsors or exhibitors should please email admin@nira.org.ng. We look forward to your participation in the event. 

For more information about NiRA, please visitwww.nira.org.ng.  To register .ng domain name(s), please contact a NiRA Accredited Registrar via www.nira.org.ng/ng.

For more information about this press release, please contact NiRA Secretariat, 8 Funsho Williams Avenue, Iponri, Surulere, Lagos, Nigeria. Tel: 234 8172004272, 0700 CALL NIRA.

Internet Society Nigeria Chapter Media Advocacy.

The Internet Society (ISOC) Nigeria Chapter is organising its First Media Advocacy. The objective is to sensitize the fourth Realm on the purpose and programmes of ISOC in Nigeria.

Members of the media are encouraged to apply. Selected participants will be notified.

http://www.bit.ly/isocngma

The Lan Parry Scholarship

The 2019 Lan Parry Scholarship is open to photojournalists under the age of 24. Prizes include a year-long mentorship, $3500 towards a photographic project & access to Canon equipment! Apply at http://theianparryscholarship.submittable.com/submit  by July 5.

When Culture fails to Clarify.

In a modern society, culture must never be forgotten thrown into the dustbin of time. Common sense demands that we use such flawless opportunity to create avenues that inspires trust and unity. Most of us would prefer the traditional nomenclature to modern jargons. However, the evolving state brings to fore the beauty of constitution and convention as an avenue to install law and order while ensuring that unity and peace reigns.

The Technology Industry is a marketplace. We invent, innovate, buy and sell. We develop strategies that would ensure that our products and services are relevant for demand and supply. Such Marketing demands organisational structures; Accountant, President, Secretary, Chairman, Director, etc. This are all position to maintain the market and profits. What baffles minds in the Technology Community is the current installation of the Babaloja and the Iyaloja of Computer Village. Soon, they will come for the Bankers Community, Insurance Forum, Building Society, GSM Village, etc.

What is the gain of a market that is divided? What is the marketing value of creating a parallel structure under the assumption of order? What is the political strength of culture competing with modern constituted structures when it can be symbiotic in nature? Who benefits from the ensuing disorder?

It is our belief that those in irrelevant places of authorities are not aware. We do not want to assume that silence means consent. While they wait, the Nigerian Society of Engineers or its Builders counterpart should have a Babaloja and Iyaloja installed to curtail the many building collapsing in Lagos State. We have had quite a handful latterly, losing Mothers and Children, Fathers not excluded in the process. We need the proposed action to maintain peace. The Nigerian Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW) should be next in line. We have so many scuffles based on accounting and transparency daily. Besides, its better to install one for all registered organisation that deals with any form of marketing in the South West, the jurisdiction where such titles can be traced.

If we agree that convention gives right to the average head of a custodian of culture on market places, what role does the constitution plays? It begs for response. While it can work side by side based on the positives, it should never be made to work above registered and constituted bodies. The President of the Federation does not seat in council with Royalty to affirm directives but in consultation, when he chooses. State Governors do not present their woes to Kings and Chiefs to assent their proposals but inform and seek support for implementation. Why should enabling bodies to be subsumed otherwise?

The Computer Village is an Internationally Acclaimed Market that deals in modern commodities that defy boundaries. Recall that the need for such officers was to check, inspect and accept the goods and services that comes within its sovereign ground, thus ensuring the regulation in prices and royalties to the king for community growth and development. Thus, bringing culture to meet modern approach to government could have been better tackled. The official job of the Babaloja and Iyaloja has evolved into Immigration Services, Inland Revenue Services, etc. To function, the Custodian of Culture must accept that certain roles will no longer be under their purview. It would be a constitutional breach.

Creating such office without proper consultation seems out-of-order. Who was called to the roundtable within that community for deliberation before action? The Oba of Lagos, Governor of Lagos, Local Government Chairman, Political Chieftains, or the average entrepreneur in the community? It begs for response. In seeking, such consultation allows for ease of action, relevance of action and creates the order seamlessly. What we have in the Computer Village today is out-of-order. It can breed nothing good but division, chaos and a dispensation of ruthless disorderliness; it played out on installation day. 

Should it not be reversed? It can be reversed but not destroyed. To make amends, the roles of this custodian must be clearly defined and must not conflict with the Constitutional rights or registration Acts of the Nation. Our mistakes must not be embellished into a right, otherwise, we would have laid an antecedent that may come to spite us in the coming future. Once it becomes a precedent, we are doomed.

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