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By Chinenye Anuforo
As Nigeria accelerates its transition into a digital-first economy, Africa Hyperscalers has moved to position the media at the centre of infrastructure growth, convening senior journalists and industry leaders in Lagos for a workshop focused on digital infrastructure and artificial intelligence.
Held in partnership with The Media Training Room (TMTR), Open Access Data Centres, and Rack Centre, the capacity-building session targeted a longstanding knowledge gap between the media and the rapidly evolving digital infrastructure ecosystem, an industry now central to economic growth, innovation, and national competitiveness.
The workshop focused on equipping journalists with the technical insight and ethical grounding required for accurate, responsible, and investment-enabling reporting across critical infrastructure layers including connectivity, data centres, interconnection, cloud, and power, alongside discussions on project bankability and the expanding influence of AI in modern journalism.
Executive Director of Africa Hyperscalers, Temitope Osunrinde, underscored the urgency of informed media engagement, noting that digital infrastructure has become as vital to national development as transport networks and energy systems.
“If Africa is to shape credible narratives that attract long-term investment and support sustainable digital economies, the media must understand how these systems work and what it takes to deliver them. This initiative is about empowering journalists to elevate public discourse, inform policy, and ultimately strengthen infrastructure outcomes,” Osunrinde said.
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A featured session on Ethical and Professional News Reporting in the Age of AI, led by TMTR Founder and ThisIsLagos.ng Publisher Toni Kan, examined how artificial intelligence is reshaping newsroom workflows, editorial responsibility, and accountability standards.
Industry leaders also unpacked the structural realities of infrastructure delivery. Adebola Adefarati, Head of Marketing and Communications at Rack Centre, explored broadband expansion challenges in “Connectivity: From Subsea to the Street,” while Geniserve CEO Gbenga Adegbiji addressed resilience strategies for data centres and national connectivity systems.
Providing further technical clarity, CEO of the Internet Exchange Point of Nigeria (IXPN), Muhammed Rudman, delivered “What You Don’t Know About the Internet in Nigeria,” highlighting the economic and sovereignty benefits of local internet exchange, traffic localization, and reduced latency.
The programme closed with a panel session on the media’s influence in accelerating digital infrastructure development, featuring CNBC West Africa Bureau Chief Tayo Fagbule; Head of Converged Infrastructure at Open Access Data Centres, Obinna Adumike; IXPN CEO Muhammed Rudman; and Africa Hyperscalers’ Temitope Osunrinde.
Panelists emphasized that sustained, transparent, and technically grounded journalism is critical to investor confidence, coherent policymaking, and coordinated sector growth across Nigeria’s digital infrastructure value chain.
The workshop received sponsorship support from Open Access Data Centres, reinforcing private-sector commitment to deeper media engagement and stronger public understanding of the infrastructure powering Africa’s digital future.
