By The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) will lead other delegates to discuss and take far-reaching decisions at the NITRA Innovative & Scientific Conference scheduled event, which has its theme as “Bridging Nigeria’s Digital Divide With Scientific Innovation”.
The other companies that have indicated interest in partnering with NITRA include mobile communications company, Tecno; Africa’s premier end-to-end AI solutions company, Hyperspace; and telecommunications data infrastructure company, Digital Realty.
Chairman, Nigeria Information Technology Reporters Association (NITRA), Mr Chike Onwuegbuchi noted that the event will seek to create a platform for government and private organisations to deliberate on policies around scientific innovations in Nigeria, challenges, place of indigenous and foreign collaboration, roles of each stakeholder, and grassroots development in that regard, among others.
According to him, the Federal government, with series of programmes and partnerships, has established the urgent need to create an ecosystem that thrives on scientific innovation, breeding institutions and individuals with a target of placing the country at the fore-front of Next-Gen development.
The forum will also be a vehicle to propagating the views of decision makers to the public, thereby furthering the cause of public awareness and information dissemination on the topic.
It is also expected to focus on how Nigeria can sustain digital innovative growth and scientific development in Nigeria
