Digital Jewels, Financialtechnology collaborate on e-Business Handbook

Digital Jewels, information value chain consulting company is collaborating with Financialtechnology, a pan-African financial technology magazine to publish and circulate its e-Business Handbook, a Definitive Guide for e-Business in Africa.
The objective of the publication is to create a factual, comprehensive and insightful report that captures e-business in Nigeria and Africa while facilitating investment decisions and growth initiatives. The report will among other issues review e-business activities, evaluate growth triggers and inhibitors, uncover key initiatives and strategic promoters, unlock underserved areas, showcase available products and services as well as analyse the viability of the sector to the Nigerian business community today.
A total of 20, 000 copies of the e-Business Handbook will be published and circulated to all English speaking African countries, Egypt and beyond. It will be an annual publication and the first edition will be published in May 2009. The publication will be the first of its kind in Africa. An online version of the report will be hosted and this will be updated regularly to capture all the trends in the fast changing terrain of e-business during the year. The handbook comprises case studies, profiles, features, articles and analysis.
Adedoyin Odunfa, managing director, Digital Jewels, said that the e-Business Handbook will dwell extensively on how e-business is impacting on the development of some sectors of the Nigerian economy. These sectors include telecoms, banking, non-banking financial, aviation, regulatory bodies, mobile commerce, switching transactions, manufacturing, oil and gas, information technology, courier, transportation and lottery.
In addition, Odunfa explained that detailed profile of the leading lights that have employed and are employing e-business to deepen development in the various sectors of the economy would be published in the e-Business Handbook.
“Besides, several thought leaders across the major sectors of the economy have agreed to share their thoughts on the achievements, prospects and challenges of e-business development in Nigeria,” she said.
She also disclosed that the e-Business Handbook will accommodate case studies of e-business developments from Kenya (East Africa), Ghana (West Africa) and South Africa (Southern Africa). “We hope to share practical experiences across Africa with analysis of how e-business is deepening African growth and development using Kenya, Ghana and South Africa as case studies.”
The target market for the publication is the entire business community in Nigeria and Africa as a whole. “We believe the industry as a whole will benefit immensely from this initiative and that it would be invaluable to executive management, e-business leaders, managers, governments, multinationals and SMEs in devising strategies and taking informed decisions. It would also be of value to foreign direct investors who wish to understand how best to play in the Nigerian economy,” she added.