Success Damian:
In a press statement signed by Olusola Teniola, President, ATCON, the conference termed national dialogue with a well-researched theme “Harnessing the Digital Resources for the building of our National Economy” will now hold on Thursday, October 15, 2020 at NAF Conference Centre Abuja.
Recall that the national dialogue was postponed as a result of the global pandemic which is widely regarded as Covid-19.
According to ATCON, the conference was designed to grow the entire sector of the Nigerian economy exponentially as thought leaders in the sector are expected to come up with brilliant ideas as to what the public and private sector can do to maximize the benefits inherent in the digital economy such that the recent fall in Nigeria’s GDP can be reversed.
Thought leaders who have confirmed attendance to the
conference include Dr Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, Honourable Minister, Federal
Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy; Rt. Hon. (Dr.) Simon Bako
Lalong, Executive Governor, Plateau State; Prof Umar Garba Danbatta, Executive Vice
Chairman/CEO, Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) and Mr Kashifu Inuwa
Abdullahi, Director-General/CEO, National Information Technology Development
Agency (NITDA).
Others include Mr Shubham Chaudhuri, Country Director (Nigeria), World Bank; Mr Segun Ogunsanya, Managing Director/CEO, Airtel Networks; Mr Alan Sinfield, Managing Director/CEO, 9mobile; Mr Trevor Liuyan, CEO, Huawei Nigeria and many others.
This National Dialogue on Telecoms and ICT is targeted at
changing the structure of the country’s development through the maximum
utilization of digital resources such that Federal Government, State Government
and other key stakeholders in the Agriculture, Education, Oil & Gas,
Health, Industry, Trade and Investment, Security and Defence Sector would
leverage on the outcome of this event to improve their contributions to the
nation’s GDP.
Underlining strategic objectives of the Dialogue included but not restricted to intentionally channel collaborative positive efforts toward Nigerian Digital Economy with the sole aim of accelerating economy’s performance in relation to other leading African countries; to serve as a forum to discuss the recently launched documents on Digital Economy and take stakeholders’ input for implementation; to optimally X-ray the factors that have worked for and against the telecom and ICT sector in Nigeria; and discuss regulations and policies around AI, IoTS and Blockchain and the rest.
Some of the topics to be discussed by professionals who formed the team of panelists are Digital Economy in Nigeria: Challenges and Opportunities; Private Public Partnership and Development of Mechanism for the seamless Management of Inter-Ministries and Agencies: an imperative for Broadband Infrastructure Development in Nigeria; National Funding and Investment Strategy for Broadband Infrastructure and Digital Economy: The Importance of Education and Awareness and Regulation on Emerging Technologies (AI, IoT, Robotics, Blockchain, etc): Leveraging on Nigerian Young Population’s Innovation and Creativity for National Development
There will also be a special sectoral discussion tagged “Harnessing
Digital Resources for Sectoral Effectiveness and Efficiency for National
Development” to be handled by Mallam Adamu Adamu, Honourable Minister, Federal
Ministry of Education; Dr Osagie Ehanire, Honourable Minister, Federal Ministry
of Health; Alhaji Mohammed Sabo Nanono, Honourable Minister, Federal Ministry
of Agriculture and Rural Development; Major GeneralBashir Salihi Magashi (Rtd),
Honourable Minister, Federal Ministry of Defence, among others.
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