Sweden has highlighted the importance of files and communications abilities (ICT) to the model of the economy in Nigeria and assorted parts of Africa.
Swedish Ambassador to Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, and Financial Community of West African States (ECOWAS), Mrs. Annika Hahn, who acknowledged this, highlighted ICT legislation and capacity building as key drivers for financial model and social development.
Hahn spoke at a workshop collectively organised by Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Sweden, at some point of the framework of the Swedish Programme for Details and Communications Technology in Constructing and Emerging Regions (SPIDER).
In an announcement by NCC the old day, signed by Director of Public Affairs, Reuben Muoka, the Swedish ambassador also recommended the commission for web hosting the occasion and fostering collaboration between both international locations.
She acknowledged the pivotal position ICT performed in Sweden’s financial boost, being the birthplace of Ericsson, one of many world’s oldest and largest ICT firms.
The ambassador acknowledged the world technological revolution and its doable to catalyse industrial and financial model. She stressed the necessity for up-to-the-minute and adaptable legislation to navigate the evolving landscape.
Hahn acknowledged: “To take care of this novel and increasing ambiance, we must control in a up-to-the-minute and adaptable system. Attributable to this fact, human capacity building in ICT legislation is principal for all of us.”
The diplomat acknowledged the COVID-19 pandemic accelerated adoption of ICT across the globe, leading to develop higher in Cyber web users, because the shift impacted a form of sectors, including education, commerce, and monetary services. She also mighty that e-studying practices on a form of platforms performed a most critical position within the transformation.
In his speech, NCC’s Executive Vice Chairman, Prof. Umar Garba Danbatta, recommended the Swedish executive and Ericsson for his or her commitment and consistency in strategic partnership with NCC, announcing this has strengthened the commission’s regulatory actions.
“This workshop signposts the most critical position NCC, as a regulator, has been playing within the West African sub-location. It also highlights the unending aim of keeping up with the times and ever evolving dynamics of the telecommunications sector,” Danbatta added.