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The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) is sponsoring five startups to take part in this year’s Smart City Summit and Expo (SCSE) organized by the Taipei Computer Association. The event holds On March 24th 2021. The startups are VNTS, LexChain, Powerstove Energy, Blieu Technologies, and Schoola.
NITDA is participating under the supervision of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami.
SCSE is a professional tradeshow that provides opportunities for networking and marketing. The categories of the SCSE are smart epidemic prevention, smart health care, smart transportation, smart education, smart energy saving, smart building, smart manufacturing, smart security control, 5G solutions, AI and related solutions and other industry categories.
Part of the program is the Mayor’s Summit where the Director General, NITDA Inuwa Kashifu Abdullahi, will be discussing Nigeria’s smart City Vision and Strategy as well as the B2B matchmaking, which will avail Nigerian startups the opportunity to meet potential partners and attract Foreign Direct Investment into Nigeria.
NITDA’s sponsored startups
According to a statement by Head, Corporate Affairs and External Relations, Mrs. Hadiza Umar, listed the sponsored startups are:
VNTS: An all-in-one device for Home/SME LTE Broadband deployment that delivers superfast 5G/LTE Broadband using electrical cabling which distributes data & delivers complete Wi-Fi coverage;
LexChain: A digital solution using Blockchain to provide government, businesses and individuals the ability to verify and securely exchange digital assets;
Powerstove Energy: A versatile ‘Plug and Play’ Solar Home System that powers lights, radios, TVs and charges phones. Each unit is SMART, and connects remotely to the central database to support PAYG, enabling proactive maintenance and remote firmware updates;
Blieu Technologies: A new valve lock system deployed with remote cloud based correspondence intelligence and OTP, to monitor the operation of sensitive process valves remotely, thus check-mating the problem of petroleum products syphoning from storage tanks or theft of high value process chemicals.
Schoola: This is a gamified Artificial Intelligence learning solution that is curriculum agnostic and powered by local content generated by individual schools. They seek to leverage AI by first using machine learning to effectively help students, teachers, and schools get the best out of their solution.
Entrepreneurial activity does not happen in silos; hence the agency is committed to exposing Nigerian startups at every global forum in order to attract more investors, enhance technology transfer viz-a-viz cross fertilization of ideas and innovations, said Abdullahi whose agency has regularly exposed Nigerian startups at international gatherings such as GITEX, Dubai and CES, Las Vegas, US among others in the last few years.
