The Managing Director of The Gage Company, Johnson Anorh, who said this at the beginning of the two-day Co-Create tech exhibition in Lagos, said it is human nature. \u201cYou cannot work so hard to come up with something interesting, and you fail to find a way to protect it,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
According to Anorh, \u201cOur legal system is there already. I mean, we have an adequate legal system. Are we taking advantage of it? How do we take advantage of the legal system that we have to protect our innovations and patents?<\/p>\n
He advised tech startups to acquire the knowledge that if people come up with novel ideas or patents, you don\u2019t have a choice than to own it and protect it.<\/p>\n
The Gage boss, who revealed that there are over 30 brands, fintech, tech companies and marketing communications firms, like Multichoice, Afromedia, TRACE, Mtv Base, the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Lagos State showcasing their brands, products and innovations at the exhibition, added that \u201cit is an interesting time for technology in Africa. There is therefore the need to create opportunities to network, set the environment for critical thinking that would spark new solutions by brands, fintechs, start-ups as exhibitors.<\/p>\n
\u201cWith Nigeria becoming the tech hub in Africa, as one the ICT investments running into billions of Dollars, there\u2019s a need to create a platform where this original innovations, original ideas are celebrated, where they are brought together under one roof, and then also used to create a learning process.<\/p>\n
He added, \u201cWe know that the frictions that exist in the African environment are a laboratory for the most innovative solutions and Co-Create 2022 has started a journey that organises our solutions to the most critical problems that exist here in Africa.\u201d
\nHe revealed that a two-day open learning programme with panel sessions and presentations covering 11 content tracks supported the exhibition.<\/p>\n
Anorh said: \u201cThe awards will now be the grand culmination of these wonderful expositions, where they are not only just exhibited, but they are amplified and celebrated by a recognition that boasts of an unparalleled pedigree not only within the borders of Nigeria, but beyond the shores of Africa.<\/p>\n
\u201cCo-Create is an idea that has become the driving force of this platform and is also created to define most hopes, technology and ideas.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn San Francisco, you have your tech hub, some governments now are creating one in Saudi Arabia and they\u2019re creating hubs deliberately. We want to do this with this hub, to create the right environment, to attract some of the best thinking minds and some of the best tech minds in the clime.<\/p>\n
\u201cSo, what we are what we\u2019re doing with Co-Create now is to get people from the tech world, from the FinTech space, from the agri tech space, the ad tech space, all these different parts of tech technology, bring them under one roof and you\u2019ll be surprised the kinds of things that can spark off from that roof.<\/p>\n
\u201cLet me give you an example. Like we don\u2019t have lights and for someone to come up with an innovative idea that makes light available, I can just put one gadget on top of my table and life becomes available 24\/7, no matter the megawatts.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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