Cisco Nigeria gave the projection at the end the Cisco Networking Academy held at the University of Lagos, noting that tertiary institutions are not producing enough ICT graduates to meet this demand.General Manager, Cisco, Nigeria, Ghana, Liberia and Sierra Leone, Mr. Dare Ogunlade said in a remark during the training that governments urgently need to deploy policy and training programmes to help solve the world’s fastest-growing gap in networking professionals.
He stated the demand for Internet Technical Professionals is increasing in proportion to the demand for connectivity adding that the global shortage of skilled IP networking professionals will be at least 1.2 million people in 2015, according to INSEAD Business School’s Global Talent Competitiveness Index 2014 co-authored by Cisco.
The industry expert disclosed that the latest Cisco Visual Networking Index, Global Mobile Data Traffic Forecast for 2014-2019 revealed that mobile data traffic is expected to grow 11-fold over the next five years in Nigeria, which is a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 63 percent – two times faster than expected fixed IP traffic growth.
He explained that it highlights that connectivity is accelerating at a fast pace in the country therefore creating a growing need for skilled ICT professionals stressing that the lack of young ICT professionals is not limited to just Nigeria.
He said that increased connectivity, the Internet of Everything, rising digitisation of all business activity, globalisation of trade and travel, and economic growth globally has created the same problem in a number of countries globally.
Ogunlade said: “Specific programmes and targeted policies are needed to expand the total pool of qualified people in Nigeria, as well as globally. More effort is particularly needed to expand the pool of qualified networking talent by increasing the number of new Networking employees.”
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