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The Government Vice Chairman of the Nigeria Communications Commission (NCC), Umar Dambatta, has said that the commission is working with universities throughout the country to update their curriculum to replicate the rising trends in the Details and Communication Technological innovation (ICT) planet.
Dambatta claimed this was element of the commission’s moves to accomplish indigenous material progress and sustained innovation in the Nigerian ICT sector.
He produced this regarded yesterday in Enugu for the duration of the South-east region Emerging Technologies Investigation and ICT Innovation Forum with the theme: ‘Digital Culture and Emerging Technologies: Leveraging ICTs to make info and information societies to attain the National Electronic Economy’.
In accordance to him, the telecommunications sector has emerged as a critical driver of socio-financial activities, social advancements and innovation globally.
He famous that the disruptions in the ICT also culminated in the federal government’s launching of the Countrywide Electronic Economic climate Coverage Method (NDEPS), to make sure that youths and the total region reward and also participate in the improvements that the ICT delivers.
Dambatta, who was represented by the Head of Investigation and Growth Conversation at the NCC, Kelechi Nwankwo, claimed the forum was geared toward having Nigerians in the modern room across the areas to fully grasp exactly where ICT is going.
He stated: “The forum affords us the opportunity to interact with the country’s digitally savvy youths and other stakeholders in the tech ecosystem to explore helpful strategies of selling indigenous information improvement and digital adoption as effectively as ground breaking providers that will foster sector and nationwide growth.”
He preserved that locating innovative methods of unlocking the up coming frontiers of development in the sector is a important regulatory emphasis of the fee which is why the yearly ICT impressive forum is strategically important to the fee.
Dambatta observed that the forum supports pillars 5 and 7 of the NDEPS which are centered on digital support progress and promotion as perfectly as digital culture and rising systems.
“The recent momentum getting witnessed in the Nigerian technologies house is attributable to the regulatory solution of the commission which is concentrated on efficient regulation of the telecommunications sector in methods that do not inhibit competitiveness but foster innovation and industry expansion,” he said.
