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Idea Sprint Workshop is currently taking place in Lagos preparatory to the USPF Hackathon event coming up soon. For more details, please visit www.uspfhackathon.org.
The Universal Service Provision Fund was at the 2015 Esri User Conference in San Diego, USA, from 20th to 24th July, 2015 to present a paper on the Access Gap "GIS Mapping of Network Transport Gaps in Nigeria". Anyone interested in reading the paper as well as other proceeding of the conference can visit the 2015 User Conference Proceedings Page.
The Commonwealth Broadband Forum held in Abuja, Nigeria from 16th to 17th June, 2015. The forum was organized by the Commonwealth Telecommunication Organization (CTO) and hosted by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC).
The USPF, in collaboration with the Librarians' Registration Council of Nigeria (LRCN), is conducting training for librarians to manage the e-library project implemented in 74 public libraries under the Information Resource Centre project.
The intensive 5-module training programme being carried out on a zone-by-zone basis is one of the outputs of a comprehensive sustainability programme designed to ensure that the beneficiary libraries are equipped with adequate skills to manage and sustain the e-libraries.
At the end of the programme, three librarians from each of the e-libraries totaling two hundred and twenty two (222) librarians would have been trained.