The Digital Bridge Institute, DBI, on Wednesday signed a significant Memorandum of Understanding (MoU), with a United Kingdom company, International Data Flows Group.
The MoU is to express the willingness of both parties to engage in an effort to establish a working and commercial relationship in relation to a collaboration on various Educational Capacity Building projects across Africa.
The collaboration would also seek to establish and inform the basis of onward formal agreements on the use, licensing and commercialization of the OBASHI Methodology, OBASHI Learn, OBASHI core software platform and software technology in its current form or future planned form, the OBASHI API and SDK software development.
In an MoU signed at the headquarters of DBI, Abuja, both parties expressed their readiness to research and develop funding opportunities from both existing and new funding partners.
The agreement, which would be overseen by the DBI and the International Data Flows Nigeria (IDFN), who are the two parties to the MoU, will ensure that the DBI will become a partner on International Data Flows to licence OBASHI educational courses across Africa continent.
While the DBI, established by the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), is the foremost ICT training and educational institute in Nigeria, IDFUK wholly owns the entire suite of OBASHI software and methodology and issues licensing as it seems appropriate.
However, the International Data Flow Nigeria Ltd, was created to service the Middle East and Africa regions, as a commercial operation to roll out the use of OBASHI Methodology across the Middle East and Africa, fully supported by its parent body, the IDFUK.
The MoU was signed by the DBI President/CEO, David Daser on behalf of the institute, and Dr. Chukwudi Diugwu, the CEO of IDFN, on behalf of the partner.
Soji-Ezekiel Fagbemi
Manager, Public Affairs.
