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The Network Outage: Critical Infrastructure Failure and Public Anger

For chief executives, directors and technology, operations and customer leaders of African telecoms, payment and critical-infrastructure companies. Command a major incident, restore safely, protect critical users, work with the regulator, compensate customers and build resilience.

  • Price₦204,000
  • DurationAbout 240 minutes
  • Access365 days
  • LevelBoardroom
  • You get9 lessons and a boardroom simulation
  • CertificateYes, anyone can verify it

Who it is for

Chief executives, directors, technology, network-operations, regulatory and customer leaders of African telecoms, payment and critical-infrastructure companies.

What you will learn

  • Declare a major incident, take command and diagnose before changing
  • Restore service in safe stages without causing a second outage
  • Protect emergency calls, hospitals, banks and mobile money
  • Notify and work with the regulator openly, and understand compensation and penalties
  • Care for customers, especially the vulnerable, and compensate simply
  • Communicate first and honestly with one source of truth
  • Find the root cause, hold vendors accountable fairly and build tested resilience

Course outline

  1. Anatomy of a national outage
  2. The first hours: command and diagnosis
  3. Restoration without making it worse
  4. Critical users: banks, hospitals and emergency services
  5. The regulator and the law
  6. Customers, care and compensation
  7. Communicating in an outage
  8. Root cause, vendors and liability
  9. Resilience and rebuilding trust
  10. Boardroom simulation

What is included

  • 9 lessons On a live whiteboard, with an AI instructor who answers from the lesson and cites its source. Questions can go to faculty.
  • A virtual boardroom simulation Face AI board members in a fictional crisis. Scored against a clear rubric (pass mark 75), checked by a person when it is close, with an appeal.
  • A verifiable certificate A certificate of completion with a QR code, with a public page where anyone can check it is genuine. It is not a regulated or accredited qualification.

Level: Boardroom · About 240 minutes · Access for 365 days