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NITDA to Address Challenges in Technology Ecosystem through NIIEV
The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) on the 31stOctober hosted the maiden edition of the ICT Innovation and Entrepreneurship stakeholders meeting aimed to collectively identify the challenges of stakeholders and proffer solutions to address them for a thriving technology ecosystem.
In a statement released on Tuesday by Mrs Hadiza Umar, Head, Corporate Affairs and External Relations, National Information Technology Development Agency stated that the objective of the meeting was to collectively identify the challenges of stakeholders and identify strategies to address them for a thriving technology ecosystem.
It would be recalled that, President Muhammadu Buhari at e-Nigeria 2017, charged NITDA to develop policies and strategies that will change Nigeria’s narrative from being a tech-consuming to a tech-producing country.
Following this charge NITDA in order to unlock our national potential has proposed a number of urgent measures to connect, educate and enable digital innovation.
This according to the statement birthed the Nigeria ICT Innovation and Entrepreneurship Vision (NIIEV).
The NIIEV comprise of policy recommendations and incentives on the key components for building a tech ecosystem and are categorised into 3 themes, Digital Infrastructure, Education Reform, skills Development and R&D; and Supporting the Ecosystem for Innovative Entrepreneurship.
NITDA through its subsidiary, the Office for ICT Innovation and Entrepreneurship (OIIE) has worked directly with entrepreneurs, hubs and hub networks to review the best practices across Africa and around the world to support digital transformation in Nigeria.
The statement further stated that “As part of the Agency’s rulemaking process, the document has been subjected to internal reviews by some key Government agencies where insightful feedback and updates were received.
“In an effort to enrich the document and in line with the Agency’s policy of participatory regulation, industry stakeholders and the general public are invited to review the document through either of the following (i) on the consultation tool at https://niiev.ictinnovation.gov.ng(ii) via www.nitda.gov.ng and click important notice(iii) via facebookchatbot at http://m.me/ngrinnovationor simply send an email to info@ictinnovation.gov.ng.
“All the portal for the review are open from 13thNovember 2018 to 27thNovember, 2018.”
At the stakeholder’s meeting were several representatives from Government, Hubs, banks, investor networks, academia, media and technology entrepreneurs were.