Governor Soludo Meets with US Consul-General and U.S Tech Companies towards Tech and Innovation in the State, Meta, Amazon, Visa, Google, HP, Dell, KPMG to Partner

On Friday, January 19, 2024, Governor Professor C.C. Soludo CFR, led a delegation to a strategic meeting with the US Consul-General, Mr William Stevens and select leaders of US high-tech companies in Lagos at the US Consulate.

"The meeting explored areas of possible strategic partnerships, corporate alliances, technological collaboration and general innovation. We are intentional with establishing the Anambra Digital Tribe (ADT), supporting the tech and creative ecosystem with intentions to drive innovation as a basis for a new economy in Anambra”

“Our vision is to transform Anambra into the digital and creative capital of Nigeria, develop Africa's Silicon Valley with our Solution Innovation District (SID)"

“I am excited at the productive outcomes of the meeting and look forward to making all our deliberations actionable in the shortest time possible. We are seeking mutually benefiting partnerships as we forge the foundations of a liveable and prosperous homeland” C.C. Soludo CFR.

Anambra Delegation made presentations showcasing giant strides the state is making so far so far at Solution Innovation District and the ICT Agency. SID in developing human capital has impacted over 100,000 people, directly trained 25,000 persons on various digital skills, developing the startup law, developing the innovation ecosystem, mini hubs, digitizing SMEs etc while ICT Agency is digitizing the civil service-equipped civil service with laptops, harmonising e-governance etc.

“In Anambra State, we are laying a strong foundation to unlock the technology, innovation, creativity, and digital economy in both the public and private sectors of our State. We are working to accomplish Mr Governor’s vision- transforming Anambra into a hub for technology, e-governance, innovation, tech talents, startups and smart SMEs. Strategic partnership is key to accelerating our progress and we are thrilled that companies such as Meta, Amazon, Google, HP, Dell, SLB, Dow, Coca- Cola, KPMG and others already made strong commitments as partners. Details of this partnership would be communicated in due course” Chinwe Okoli

The Anambra state delegation included Commissioner for Industry; Mr. Christian Udechukwu, Special Adviser to the Governor on Innovation and Business Incubation, Ms Chinwe Okoli, and Managing Director of Anambra State ICT Agency, Chukwuemeka Fred Agbata.

The US high-tech companies present at the special meeting include;

1. ATC

2. Shekel Mobility

3. KPMG

4. Africa Data Centers

5. Amazon

6. Amazon Web Services

7. VISA

8. Anergy

9. Microsoft

10. Coca-Cola

11. Google