Head, Sub-Saharan Africa, Global System for Mobile Communication Association (GSMA) Mr Wale Goodluck, on Thursday said that Nigeria will compete globally in the digital economic space by developing relevant content that support seamless lifestyle and businesses.
Goodluck said during the Technology Times Outlook event in Lagos that there were a lot of contents but not many of them were relevant toward keying Nigeria into digital economy.
He said that relevant contents would ensure that citizens were easily moved to adopt the internet to develop the nation.
According to him, the world is changing faster than imagined and there is a danger of being excluded in the changing world.
“We have to bring everybody to the digital space because anybody that is not included will pose danger to the society, economically, socially and otherwise.
“What is keeping the Sub-Saharan Africa from being included in price, infrastructure and content?
“There are a lot of contents, but there are not enough relevant contents.
“Relevant content has to bridge language barrier, so that everyone will be included in the digital world.
“Majority of the contents are too complicated for the knowledge of the people, hence, making it impossible for them not to understand the value of the internet,’’ he said.
Goodluck said that content had become king, therefore, must be relevant for the inclusion of citizens in the ever-changing world.
He said that a lot of businesses that were content distributors in nature were now becoming content creators.
Mr Yele Okeremi, the Chief Executive Officer of Precise Financial Systems Ltd., said that the country was spending much money on foreign contents or applications.
Okeremi said that Nigeria had to come up with policies that would curtail the spending of money on foreign contents/applications that the country had equivalent to.
The convener of Technology Times Outlook, Mr Shina Badaru, said that technology had enveloped everything that was been done.
Badaru said that the event was to share the road-map on how technology would shape and define the environment in the years to come.
