Wanted: Environment for Technology Hub

ICT is widely recognised as a key pillar to enhance economic growth and national competitiveness of any nation.
For ICT to play such role, government must create and maintain an overall macroeconomic environment that brings together suppliers and consumers in an inter-firm co-operation manner.
Government’s’ strategy and policies aimed at providing the populace access to ICT on a national scale need to be multifaceted.
The strategy should include support for such programmes as the technology hub; the local content initiative that aim to excite the ICT industry.
National Information Technology Development Agency (Nitda) entrusted with the implementation of the National IT policy, which seeks to make Nigeria an IT capable country in no distant future must address the “hardware” or the physical availability of ICT infrastructure, and also the “softer” aspects pertaining to social and educational levels, not lease of all, the readiness to effectively harness the potential of ICT.
As the chief ICT office of the country, Nitda should focus on policies and efforts that will increase ICT adoption. 
Such efforts as the Technology hub should be encouraged to awaken individual creativity, curb restiveness and connect young and budding content, applications and infrastructure developers with users and buyers.
Nitda must however make sure that the programme comes as a bundled package complete with software, capacity and infrastructure development.
The agency must also make sure that key attention of such initiatives is on the youth because they are the most disenfranchised in decision making, yet to they constitute the largest segment of the population.
Importantly, if Nigeria is to make sense of the ICT revolution, Nitda must ensure that Nigeria carve a niche in the high value, creative portion of the value chain.
This can be done by the removal of and administrative barriers to technology development, sound economic policy, regulatory frameworks and transparency, all of which create an environment conducive to private and public sector technology transfer.