Transcript Impact of Indigenous ICT Innovation on National

Impact of ICT Local Content and Innovations on
National Development
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Presentation Outline
o Introduction
o Impacts of Indigenous ICT on the National Development Move in Nigeria.
o Local Content and Poverty Alleviation
o Local content and ICT innovations in Nigeria
o Local Content and Feedback Mechanism
o Conclusion
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Introduction
 Nigeria as a nation has a plan, strategy and polices for growth.
 However, her over reliance on oil is militating this:
95% of total export earnings
over 83% of Federal Government revenue
generating more than 40% of GDP
 Hence, a need to diversify the economy
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Introduction (Cont’d)
… and
ICT became one of the sector for diversifying the economy
This led to the
promulgation of the NITDA act 2007
and Nigerian oil and gas development bill in 2010
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Introduction (Cont’d)
NITDA Act 2007
The goals of the Act are:
 to drive indigenous innovation.
 develop the local content industry
 establish the intellectual right and protect standard
While the Oil & Gas Act was to:
 increase indigenous participation in the Oil and gas industry
 the use of local services and materials and
 promote transfer of technology and skills to Nigerian staff and labour.
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Introduction (Cont’d)
…Assuredly,
ICT has emerged as a force to reduce the imbalance between
the lower, middle and elite classes.
And the goals of the
Local Content Development in Information and Communication
Technology (LCD-ICT) confirms this!
The LCS-ICT has the hidden potential of generating wealth
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Introduction (Cont’d)
Figure 1: LCD-ICT Structure
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Impacts of Indigenous ICT on the National Development
Move in Nigeria
 ICT is impacting all other sectors for over all national
development
The Testaments includes the following sectors
o Industries
o Health
o Research and Development
o Financial and banking
o Telecom
o Education
o Agricultural
o Oil and Gas
o Military
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Impacts of Indigenous ICT on the National Development
Move in Nigeria (Cont’d)
o Industries Sector
SMEs are the main drivers of economic growth
SMEs, cottage industries and others uses ICT in driving
their productions and services.
SMEs have increased sales and reduced the cost of
advertorial tasks
With ICT, SMEs now leverage business opportunities around
the globe
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Impacts of Indigenous ICT on the National Development
Move in Nigeria (Cont’d)
o Health Sector
Connectivity to ICT facilities by teaching hospitals to aid
healthcare delivery
ICT has promoted telemedicine
o R&D Sector
A study by UNESCO in OAU revealed that Internet earned 17.26%
of sources of research materials.
And research materials ranks second with a percentage of 53.42% in use
of internet by researchers.
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Impacts of Indigenous ICT on the National Development
Move in Nigeria (Cont’d)
o Financial and Banking Sector
IPPIS have saved Nigeria of over N120bn
o Telecom Sector
Now contributes meaningfully to the GDP
This sector & information services sector contributed 8.68 % the
economy in the rebased GDP
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Impacts of Indigenous ICT on the National Development Move
in Nigeria (Cont’d)
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Impacts of Indigenous ICT on the National Development
Move in Nigeria (Cont’d)
o ICT or Internet Usage
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Local Content and Poverty Alleviation
o Knowledge gained through ICT does not only give power but
creates wealth and alleviates poverty
o World Bank’s study shows that companies that use ICT grow
faster, productive and profitable.
o Moreover, LC Act requires every sector where ICT is
deployed uses minimum of 51% local content of the workers
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Local Content and Poverty Alleviation (Cont’d)
… tapping the potency in ICT for national development
Figure 5: Local Content and ICT for Wealth creation
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Local content and ICT innovations in Nigeria
 The LC Act, which is meant to:
grow and provide an enabling environment for indigenous ICT and
telecom companies
help them to widen their frontiers
so that they can build human capacity,
come up with world-class innovations that can easily compete globally
… with this on ground …
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Local content and ICT innovations in Nigeria (Cont’d)
… then stakeholders in the ICT took this challenge in measuring up to their
demand in the NITDA Act 2007
These stakeholders includes:
ISVs,
OEMs,
Networking infrastructure companies,
MNCs,
MDAs,
ODMs,
ISPs,
NCS,
CPN,
ISPON, and others
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Local content and ICT innovations in Nigeria (Cont’d)
… through some of these stakeholders, much innovations have being
produced. This includes:
o Malaria Destroyer Game; a digital knowledge-entertainment and
educational mobile game.
o Nigerian Constitution Blackberry App.
o REMITA: an e-payment solution.
o Clicrec
o e-identity card from the NIMC
o and lots of others
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Local Content and Feedback
 Having enacted the Act, NITDA and other organizations were saddled with
it enforcements.
 This enforcement is to feed govt. back on effect of the policies in the Act.
 Hence, there is a need for measuring the impacts of this Act on national
development.
 The paper designed a proposed model for receiving this feedback.
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Local Content and Feedback (Cont’d)
Figure 6: Local Content Act Feedback Mechanism
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Local Content and Feedback (Cont’d)
Figure 7: A Relational Diagram between MDAs – NITDA – S&Os
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Conclusion
 The LC Act was a timely, for it positions Nigeria to
join the fastest growing economies in the world – BRICS
and to be one of the first 20 economies in the world.
 This is achievable giving the impact of ICT/Telecom to the nation’s
economy and GDP.
 Furthermore, the paper
modelled the target of the NITDA guidelines on NCD-ICT.
it enumerated some impacts of the Act on the nation’s economy.
and developed a feedback mechanism.
 All relevant bodies (NITDA, CPN, …) needs to form a synergy in
realising the aims for overall national development
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Thank you…
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