Odusote to Preside Over Nigeria IPV6 Roundtable 2013

*Mrs. Odusote

Former Admin Contact for Nigeria’s country code Top Level Domain (ccTLD), .ng, Mrs. Ibukun Odusote, has been named the chairperson of the Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable 2013, which is on its fourth edition.

Organizers of the event, DigitalSENSE Africa Media, through its Executive Director, Operations, Mrs. Nkemdilim Nweke said the nomination of Mrs. Odusote to preside over the 2013 edition of the Roundtable was unanimously adopted by the management board of her company.

Mrs. Nweke noted that the one-day Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable is held annually in commemoration of the World Internet Protocol version Six (IPv6) in the country, every June 6, with this year’s theme as “IPv6 and Mobile Services in Nigeria.”

She added that several companies who intend to play in the IPv6 industry are gearing up for the commemoration by booking a space for exhibition of some products akin to IPv6.

The Executive Director pointed out that Mrs. Odusote’s pedigree in Nigeria’s Internet industry cannot be over-emphasised beginning from when she became the Admin contact for .ng and later grew to become director, IT at the Information and Communications ministry.

As the national coordinator of Digital Peers International, Mrs. Odusote has proven that Nigerian women can really play the role of champion in Internet evolution and as pioneer in several fronts in encouraging children to adapt to Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

Mrs. Nweke revealed that the event would hold on Thursday, June 6, this year with a

keynote addresses by the Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr. Eugene Juwah and Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Prof. Cleopas Angaye, among other speakers scheduled to grace the Nigeria IPv6 Roundtable 2013.

“For this year, we are good to go and very much excited with the acceptance of Mrs. Odusote to make the difference, more so as the first woman to preside over the Nigeria IPV6 Roundtable,” she observed.

She urged stakeholders across the Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), especially those playing in the Internet industry to take advantage of this roundtable by actively participating.

Mrs. Nweke called to mind that following the allocation of the last batch of the Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4) addresses by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) it became imperative for the deployment of Internet Protocol version 6 (IPv6).