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The Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, has asked Nigerian tech innovators and entrepreneurs to focus on building solutions that address problems across sectors.
The NITDA boss spoke at the just ended Digital Nigeria International Conference & Exhibition in Abuja where he noted that government has provided a level playing field for them to excel in problem-solving ventures.
The tech ecoystem is only a part of a multi-stakeholders platform that has the governmnet playing its own role. Every stakeholder has a role to play, said Abdullahi.
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His words: “To build a very strong tech ecosystem, we need the government, the higher institutions, we need the entrepreneurs, the risk capitalists and corporate organisations, everybody has its own role to play.”
Government was already playing its role by creating a level playing field by “formulating policies, legal framework, regulations and intervening in providing infrastructure to the underserved and unserved communities,” the NITDA boss said.
Adding: “The government needs you, needs your commitment the same way the government is committed. For the higher institutions, we need you to produce high quality education to the people because innovation, digital economy or knowledge-based economy are all human capital economy.”
“Your greatest resources are not the mineral resources but it is what you have in your brain; we need higher institutions to produce the right skill, talents and people with entrepreneurial skills,” Inuwa noted. He claimed that the government is doing more than enough in terms of building human capital and “this is beyond conventional educational systems.”
