Gage Awards Positions Nigeria’s Digital Tech Industry For Greatness— Experts

Experts across Nigeria’s Adtech, Edtech, Healthtech, crypto, and insuretech industry have acknowledged the impact of the Gage Awards on Nigeria’s digital technology landscape, as well as how it repositions the industry for growth.

The Gage Awards which was launched with the aim of accelerating digitalisation by setting standards for growth, innovation, competition and attracting new talents to the digital space, has continued to celebrate and reward digital personalities and brands that have put Nigeria on a global platform.

The recently concluded edition, GAGE Awards 2022, featured a 2-day international technology exhibition that attracted exhibitors from the Fintech, Edutech, Agritech, Media and Advertising, as well as brands leveraging the digital technology to serve their audiences. It also featured a fireside chat with tech influencers, innovators, and policymakers to learn, share, and addressed critical issues in Nigeria’s technology industry.

Gandhi Anandan, MD Fast Moving Consumer Goods Distribution Ltd. said: “GAGE Awards is an exciting place to be because it is the start of something big. In terms of technology, Nigeria was a late starter, but now the country is catching up quickly with what’s happening all over the world, and I see opportunities such as the GAGE Awards, awarding people who are stalwarts, who are leaders in the industry, and recognizing them to be absolutely wonderful because it actually provides an avenue for people to say yes I can really flourish and develop myself on this.”

Dr. Krishnan Ranganath, Chief technology officer, Africa Data Centres said: “I think we really need to say a big thanks to GAGE Awards for how it has brought people together especially in the tech industry. We are not just GAGE-Ing people, our roller board is to recognize the people who are actually sponsoring the industry.
Strategically repositioning Nigeria’s tech landscape for growth, The GAGE Awards promotes brands and personalities that are leveraging the good of the web to transform the country, and brings together a host of tech experts, exhibitors, government representatives.

From content creators to fintech companies, some of the recipients of this year’s Award edition include DG NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi; Nengi, Sabinus, Goya Menor, VBank, Flutterwave, Ulesson, and Meta amongst others.

There is no gainsaying that Nigeria has one of the most vibrant tech hubs in Africa that create value and solve age-long problems through technological innovation and inventions. While Nigerian startups raised $1.37 billion in 2021, South Africa raised $838 million; Egypt, $588 million and Kenya, $375 million.

Within the first four months of 2022, Nigeria alone secured $660 million in seed funds from the $2.2billion generated in Africa’s tech space between January and April 2022.

As the biggest economy in Africa with one of the largest youth populations in the world, Nigeria is well-positioned to develop a strong digital economy according to the World Bank.

Some of the major areas in Nigeria’s tech space include: Software provision, website and application development, e-commerce and retail platform, integration of tech solutions for the private and public sector, asset management, advisory services, big data, biometrics, peer-to-peer lending, crowd computing, digital payments, and blockchain, financing, lending, payments, remittances business solutions, insurance, and wealth management.Attachments area