Continent: AFRICA
Country/Status/Dates: NIGERIA/Developing Country/2030
WSA Eminent National Expert: Amos Emmanuel mNCS, FIIM
ICT4SIDS Regional Code: #ICT4SIDSKano – ICT 4 Small Islands and Developing States Project
Executive Governor:
Governor Godwin Obaseki
Project Title: 10,000 Digital Citizens Startup (Innovation Capacity Development) Incubation 2030 Project.
Conducted By: Programos Foundation in partnership with Edo State Government.
#InnovationbedAfrica Edo Representatives & WSA-Nigeria Youth Coordinators:
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#WSANigeriaEdo #InnovationbedEdo #DigitalEdo #ICT4SIDSEdo
Project Regional Directors for Edo State WSA (Nigeria) and ICT4SIDS (Nigeria) SDGs Initiatives:
Permanent Secretary, Edo State Ministry of Science and Technology, Birgitta Okodugha
Igbinedion Goodluck, Managing Director, Edo Information Communication Technology Agency (ICTA)
Local Government Areas: Edo State consists of (18) LGAs. Our Incubation2030 programme to uplift the digital productivity capacity for #SVC4Nigeria in the following communities of Edo State:
- ICT4SIDSEdo Hubs
- Akoko-Edo
- Egor
- Esan Central
- Esan North-East
- Esan South-East
- Esan West
- Etsako Central
- Etsako East
- Etsako West
- Igueben
- Ikpoba-Okha
- Oredo
- Orhionmwon
- Ovia North-East
- Ovia South-West
- Owan East
- Owan West
- Uhunmwonde
Global Coverage/Volunteer Experts in Vienna, Austria 2018:
Nigerian Innovators Celebrating wins in the city of Vienna, Austria 2018 and in Cascais, Portugal 2019:

Edo State Implementation verified and Powered by Programos Foundation in partnership with UN-based ICT4SIDS and World Summit Awards (Nigeria) SDGs development initiative for Regional Digital Transformation of #DigitalEdo aka #InnovationbedEdo in the framework and mandate declaration at the OCCAM: XXI Infopoverty World Conference 2021 to bring extremely inexpensive but qualitative tech-talent up-skilling e-contents from a pool of our globally rated eminent local resources and experts of our incubation2030 network.

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- Selection and promotion of cutting edge digital innovation with local relevance, content depth and user value from all UN member states
- Contribute to the Agenda of UN WSIS and UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by showcasing creative use of digital innovation
- Fostering knowledge exchange, offering platforms of inspiration and enhancing a worldwide multi-stakeholder network
- Global visibility of WSA activities through national experts network and nominated state representatives as in Edo State, media partners and strategic cooperation with state
- Incubation2030 to influence a unique strategy of the Edo State accelerated realization of digital transformation in every segment of its economy by youth potentials of the state addressing innovation capacity development in areas not limited to Smart Living, Quality Health, Sustainable Environment and data-enabled digital services/products.
Digital Services Innovation Capacity Development Impact Incubation for Youths in Edo State …


Open Government & Citizens Engagement
services | open data | democratic participation
The Government & Citizen Engagement category may entail solutions that:
- Integrate the citizens in public administration & increase the citizen engagement
- Deliver content rich solutions to the public & connect the public including individuals, businesses and organizations
- Enable low threshold access of information, data & procedures & make public services accessible to all
- Significantly improve and enhance service depth and quality & democratic processes
- Increase transparency in governmental processes & facilitate participation of citizens and public services clients
- Simplify administrations & foster efficiency of information exchange
- Ensure equal rights to economic resources, access to basic services, ownership and control over land and other forms of property, inheritance, natural resources, appropriate new technology and financial services, including microfinance

Health & Well Being
medical care | sport | lifestyle
Health & Well Being solutions may address for example:
- Meeting healthcare needs of citizens and patients with innovative content applications
- Reduce maternal mortality ratio & preventable deaths of new-borns and children
- Prevention & reduction of epidemics like AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, hepatitis or substance abuse
- Supporting healthcare professionals, as well as the broader public, policy makers and healthcare providers with easy data access and communication tools & diagnosing with technical solutions & content
- Supporting research and development of vaccines and medicines, health financing and recruitment, development, training and retention of the health workforce
- Enable information on healthcare, nutrition, medication, disease & well-being by smart solutions
- Solutions to learn health & well-being by improving and enhancing healthy behaviour, nutrition, hygiene, sports
- Content rich solutions to enjoy and facilitate sports, music, entertainment, style & fashion
- Utilizing ICTs for hobbies, free-time activities and sports

Learning and Education
knowledge | science | skills
The Learning & Education category may entail ICT solutions that:
- Provide intelligent solutions for easy & low threshold access of education for everyone
- Address the learning needs of every level of learner and creating interactive e-learning communities & interactive, personalized and distributed education resources online
- Support knowledge transfer and skills gain in a complex and interactive fashion
- Help teachers to enhance and simplify teaching & material creation & find new methods and innovative teaching solutions using ICT’s
- Enhance corporate training & lifelong learning
- Foster global collaboration in science, provide measures to promote science and demonstrate results and value to society
- Eliminate gender disparities in education and ensure equal access to all levels of education and vocational training including persons with disabilities, indigenous peoples and children in vulnerable situations
- Provide child, disability and gender sensitive education tools and safe, non-violent, inclusive and effective learning environments

Environment and Green Energy
climate | sustainable resources | agriculture
The Environment & Green Energy category may entail ICT solutions that:
- Support maintaining ecosystems, sustainable food production systems & resilient agricultural practices that increase productivity and production
- Adaptation to climate change, extreme weather, drought, flooding and other disasters
- Utilization of genetic resources and associated traditional knowledge for sustainable agriculture
- Facilitation of timely access to market information, including on food reserves
- Supporting methods via ICT’s to progressively improve land and soil quality
- Enhance agricultural productivity and support small-scale food producers
- Water-use efficiency across all sectors & water resource management at all levels
- Support and strengthen the participation in water- and sanitation, including water harvesting, desalination, water efficiency, wastewater treatment, recycling and reuse technologies
- Enhance access to clean energy research and technology, including renewable energy, energy efficiency and advanced and cleaner fossil-fuel technology

Culture & Tourism
heritage | entertainment | subcultures
Culture & Tourism solutions may address for example:
- Preserving and presenting cultural heritage in line with the challenges of the future
- Demonstrating valuable cultural assets clearly and informatively using state-of-the-art technology
- Develop the diversity of cultures and sub-cultures and the multilingual nature of societies
- Enabling travelers to find attractions, to be informed and enlightened, to enjoy safe travel and have access to up-to-date travel information
- Enhance inter-modal use of public transport, supporting orientation in cities and countryside, allowing the hotel industry to address customers, and providing navigation-based content
- Promote sustainable tourism that creates jobs and promotes local culture and products
- Safeguard and transmission of cultural heritage
- Promote cultural diversity

Smart Settlement & Urbanization
mobility |productive work | sustainable living
The Smart Settlements & Urbanization category may entail ICT solutions that:
- Support higher levels of economic productivity through diversification, technological upgrading and innovation
- Support productive employment and decent work for all women and men, including for young people and persons with disabilities, and equal pay for work of equal value
- Offer regional and trans border infrastructure, to support economic development and human well-being
- Enhance safe, affordable, accessible and sustainable transport systems
- Entail inclusive and sustainable, integrated and sustainable human settlement planning and management
- Solutions for safe, inclusive and accessible, green and public spaces
- Support positive economic, social and environmental links between urban, per-urban and rural areas
- Solutions for financial and technical assistance, sustainable and smart buildings
- Substantially increase the number of cities and human settlements adopting and implementing integrated policies and plans towards inclusion, resource efficiency, mitigation and
- Support adaptation to climate change, resilience to disasters and/or risk management
- Consumer information and/or smart access to data at all levels

Business and Commerce
innovative services | security | finance | marketing
This category may entail ICT solutions with high social impact that:
- support and optimization of business processes
- are Fintech solutions with social impact
- create of new business models in e-commerce and m-commerce
- are solutions which demonstrate an incremental or radical / disruptive innovation development
- are applications, processes, products or business models in the financial services industry
- are solutions with regard to their supported business processes such as financial information, payments, investments, financing, advisory and cross-process support
- are solutions for the insurance industry (“Insure-Tech”), like retail, private and corporate banking as well as life and non-life insurance
- are Business-to-business (B2B), business-to-consumer (B2C) or consumer-to-consumer (C2C) solutions, internet security and other areas
- are complementary services such as personal finance management systems, or competitive solutions such as e.g. peer-to-peer lending
- provide Data security to protect sensitive consumer and corporate financial data

Inclusion & Empowerment
diversity | gender | justice | human rights
This category may entail ICT solutions with high social impact that:
- support integration of the global information society, empower the social, economic and political inclusion of all, irrespective of age, sex, disability, race, ethnicity, origin, religion or economic or other status
- empowering citizens and stakeholders in public services
- reduce “digital divides” between technology-empowered and technology-excluded communities
- Ensure equal opportunity and reduce inequalities, eliminating discriminatory laws, policies and practices in legislation, policies and action in this regard
- Enhance resilience to climate-related extreme events and other economic, social and environmental shocks and disasters
- Support mobilization of resources from a variety of sources
- Ensure access for all everyone to food, education, information, data etc.
- Strengthen the capacity, in particular developing countries, for early warning, risk reduction and health risks
- Reduce discrimination against all women and girls & prevent all forms of violence against all women and girls in the public and private spheres
- Enhance the use of enabling technology, in particular information and communications technology, to promote the empowerment of women
State programme here:
“#InnovationbedKano will emulate the foundational intervention pillars of #Innovationbed Africa involving #Fix-A-Gap Research, #UpSkilling Research, #WorldSummitAwards, #ICT4SIDS-SDGsAdvisor, and #GrassrootsDigitalPolicy”
Hon Mustapha Ibrahim, Senior Special Adviser on ICT to Kano State Government.
In-Demand Tech Skills Incubation2030 Programme:
INNOVATIONBED DIGITAL CITIZENS (INNOVATION CAPACITY DEVELOPMENT) INCUBATION2030 |
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REGIONAL INCUBATION HUBS & SPECIALIZATION UP-SKILLING PROGRAMMES![]() |
DTAP101**. Apply to Study in Innovationbed Digital Citizens Startup Up-Skilling Incubation 2030 Programme – Digital Marketing DTAP101-1 – Intermediate Programme DTAP101-2 – Advanced Programme |
DTAP102***. Apply to Study in Innovationbed Digital Citizens Startup Up-Skilling Incubation 2030 Programme – United Nations ICT4SIDS Strategic Planning for Digital Transformation Services & Project Innovation Certificate/Diploma Courses DTAP102-1 – Intermediate Education on ICT4SIDS DTAP (Industry 4.0+) Course DTAP102-2 – Advanced Connected-Community ICT4SIDS DTAP (Industry 4.0+) Course |
DTAP103**. Apply to Study in Innovationbed Digital Citizens Startup Up-Skilling Incubation 2030 Programme – Value-Add Robotics Technology: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) Course DTAP103-1 – Intermediate Programme DTAP103-2 – Advanced Project Programme |
DTAP104***. Apply to Study in Innovationbed Digital Citizens Startup Up-Skilling Incubation 2030 Programme – Project-Oriented Enterprise Software Development Course DTAP104-1 – Intermediate Programme DTAP104-2 – Advanced Project Programme |
DTAP105. Apply to Study in Innovationbed Digital Citizens Startup Up-Skilling Incubation 2030 Programme – Project-Oriented Data Science and Big Data Analytics Course DTAP105-1 – Intermediate Programme DTAP105-2 – Advanced Project Programme |
DTAP106*. Apply to Study in Innovationbed Digital Citizens Startup Up-Skilling Incubation 2030 Programme – Innovation and Application Research – an Introduction to world innovations DTAP106-1 – Intermediate Programme DTAP106-2 – Advanced Project Programme |
DTAP107***. Apply to Study in Innovationbed Digital Citizens Startup Up-Skilling Incubation 2030 Programme – Project-Oriented Web-Development DTAP107-1 – Intermediate Programme DTAP107-2 – Advanced Project Programme |
DTAP108***. Apply to Study in Innovationbed Digital Citizens Startup Up-Skilling Incubation 2030 Programme – Project-Oriented 3D Printing Course DTAP108-1 – Intermediate Programme DTAP108-2 – Advanced Project Programme |
DTAP109**. Apply to Study in Innovationbed Digital Citizens Startup Up-Skilling Incubation 2030 Programme – Project-Oriented Blockchain Technology Development Course DTAP109-1 – Intermediate Programme DTAP109-2 – Advanced Project Programme |
DTAP110**. Apply to Study in Innovationbed Digital Citizens Startup Up-Skilling Incubation 2030 Programme – Scrum and Business Agility Course DTAP110-1 – Intermediate Programme DTAP110-2 – Advanced Project Programme |
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Welcome to Global Center for Decision Support adoption from Edo State Nigeria powered by #InnovationbedAfrica
The ICT4SIDS Partnership is using ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) to accelerate the adoption of UN SDGs (Sustainable Development Goals) and the Samoa Pathway Declaration.
The objective of the Global ICT4SIDS Center is to support smart hubs that provide inexpensive and highly specialized community services in health, education, public safety, public welfare and decision support.
These hubs are designed to collaborate with each other across communities for rapid regional transformation and thus lead to rapid adoption of Samoa Pathway and SDGs.
The Global Center, shown below, supports collaboration and decision support between all hubs and also provides computer aided tools and a methodology to support SIDS. Here for the purpose of the #InnovationbedKano #InnovationbedAfrica Project

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OTHER CREDITS OF #INNOVATIONBED.AFRICA COUNTRY COORDINATOR:


Innovationbed digital ecosystem Architect, Amos Emmanuel, Professor Amjad Umar of Harrisburg University of Science & Technology, US and Dr John Steffens, Assistant Vice Provost Emeritus and Executive Director, Public Service Institute, The University of Oklahoma at an INFOPOVERTY WORLD CONFERENCE @UN Headquarters, New York 2016. #ict4sids #CollaborationNetwork #DTAPPilotProjects #Space4ict #UNSDG #Agenda2030
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Dr Amjad Umar, Director and Chief Architect (ICT4SIDS Partnership), Professor and Director of ICT Program, Harrisburg University; Adjunct Professor of Telecommunications, University of Pennsylvania; Fulbright Senior Specialist on ICT. •Dr John Steffens, Assistant Vice Provost Emeritus and Executive Director, Public Service Institute, The University of Oklahoma, • NGE Solutions Team (Kamran Khalid, Nauman Javed, Adnan Javed, Hannan Dawood, Abdul Qadir, and Arslan Dawood)
We greatly appreciate the support from Harrisburg University (Management, Partner and Technical Staff): Emmanuel Amos, Chief Software Architect/Ceo, Programos Software Group (Nigeria), Paul Haye (Jamaica), John Mwaipopo (Tanzania), and many other Points of Contacts (POCs) and Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) on this project designed to digitally transform governments, e-commerce, health, public safety, inclusion, green energy and environment, smart settlement and urbanization in developing countries.Let’s turn all these RED challenges to GREEN OPPORTUNITIES together!
Grassroots Digital Policy Awareness programme in Kano State for all policy Directors of MDAs



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