TECH DIGEST – Stakeholders in the Nigerian Information and Communications Technology have been charged to formulate new strategies that will be in sycn with the digital economy pursuit of the federal government.

The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, Mr. Musa Istifanus, who gave the charge at the 8th National Council on Communications and Digital Economy, with the theme “Leveraging the Digital Economy Policies and Strategies for Economic Recovery in a COVID-19 Era and Beyond” in Owerri, Imo State, argued that evolving a workable synergy in line with the digital agenda will help the country to realize the vision of a Digital Nigeria.

According to Istifanus, the theme of the event is very apt and a step in the right direction considering the impact of the pandemic and Government’s stance in achieving a globally competitive economy, with digital technologies.

“Nigeria, like most developing nations have come to recognize the importance of ICT as a catalyst for sustainable socio-economic development. This is why we chose the theme,” he said.

Istifanus believes that the COVID-19 pandemic, which has affected economies globally, has compelled the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy to make some far-reaching policies.

Some of such policies is the Development of the National Policy on Virtual Engagements in Federal Public Institution and facilitation of Virtual Federal Executive Council Meetings.

He said the Ministry has been rejigged to use digital technologies to enhance national socio-economic development by increasing the contribution of ICT to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).

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TECH DIGEST – The Nigerian government said it is harping on inter-agency collaboration, Connectivity and capacity building to bridge the country’s digital divide and enhance technology development.

The Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, Mr. Musa Istifanus stated this at the 8th National Council on Communications and Digital Economy, with the theme “Leveraging the Digital Economy Policies and Strategies for Economic Recovery in a COVID-19 Era and Beyond” in Owerri, Imo State.
According to the PS, these factors will help address some of the challenges that Nigeria is being confronted and ultimately, meet the expectations of the citizens, which must be delivered with limited resources.

“We are fully committed to the integration of ICTs in the socio-economic development of Nigeria in order to transform the country into a knowledge–based economy. But doing so, we need inter-agency collaboration, Connectivity and capacity building to bridge the country’s digital divide,” he explained.

He assured that the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy is committed to pursuing these factors, adding that the society is moving towards transparency and openness and there are initiatives to increase the engagement with the citizen, attract usage, develop increased levels of trust, and improve the service delivery.

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TECH DIGEST – The Honourable Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim (Pantami) has pointed out that digital innovations and entrepreneurship are key to developing the digital economy in Nigeria.

He stated this during the Ministerial retreat organized by the Ministry for directorate cadre staff. The theme of the retreat is “Performance Improvement and Service Delivery in the Era of Digital Economy” held at the Digital Economy complex, Mbora, Abuja from November 16-17, 2020.

He said digital innovation and entrepreneurship are two prerequisites for developing indigenous digital economy and charged the staff to challenge citizens to come up with innovative ideas that would proffer solutions to societal problems.

According to him, “today we are a consuming nation and our economy will continue to suffer as long as we fail to integrate production in every sector of the economy. As a nation, we must excel in manufacturing and production, which is the way forward. Our day to day activities are to promote digital entrepreneurship and our target is to transform Nigeria into a leading digital economy” Dr. Pantami said that the Ministry involved stakeholders in the ICT sector, political parties, governors, traditional institutions, and religious leaders in developing digital policies for the nation adding that the policies are not about the present administration but long-time policies for the nation which would outlive the administration.

“We don’t think about the current administration in developing policies but our focus is about the country. We inherited documents from the previous administration which we implemented; we will also leave for the incoming administration because government is a continuum”.

The Minister stated that leadership is the ability of an individual or a group of individuals to influence and guide followers or members of an organization to achieve specific goals. He urged the management to work as a team and have analytical thinking so that they could break down complex information or comprehensive data into fundamental parts.

Earlier the Permanent Secretary, Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, Mr. Musa Istifanus pointed out that the staff need to think outside the box to find solutions to Nigeria’s problems adding that the society would blame the Ministry if we fail to achieve digital economy objectives.

In her presentation titled “Strategy for Improvement on Implementation of Effective Service Delivery, the National Coordinator/Chief Executive Officer, SERVICOM, Mrs. Nnenna Akajemeli commended the management of the Ministry for the retreat to enhance digital economy strategy for the improvement on implementation of effective service delivery. In her words, service delivery has been given priority by governments in both developed and developing nations.

The service delivery gap that exists has to be bridged through the collaboration for effective service delivery. The Chairman of ICPC, Professor Bolaji Owasanoye represented by Mr. Olayinka A. Aiyegbayo in his paper titled “Ethics and Integrity Compliance in the Workplace” pointed out that accountability and Transparency must be adapt and incorporated into the organization’s culture to enhance good governance, efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity in the workplace.

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