TECHNOLOGY experts
will on Wednesday at the 2016 eWorld Forum gather to discuss the future of the
expansion of Nigeria’s digital frontier.
Scheduled to hold at the Welcome Centre, International
Airport Road, Oshodi, this year’s Theme is: 2016: Expanding Nigeria’s Digital
Frontier In the Change Era.
The Forum shall also discuss such subthemes as The
Digital Financial Services and Financial Inclusion, expanding the
Infrastructure and services ecosystem, the role of broadband infrastructure,
digital Broadcasting Ecosystem, the question of the Nigerian content and ICT as
Catalyst for economic rejuvenation.
Publisher of eWorld Magazine, Aaron Ukodie said
Nigeria’s 2015 slide in performance in global ICT Development Index shows that
the country was yet to overcome its digital divide challenges and derive
maximum benefit from ICTs for her development.
He said Nigeria has not adequately situated itself in
global growth in digital financial services in the form of mobile money so as
to advance the trend and bring about inclusiveness.
According to him Digital financial services allow
millions of people who are otherwise excluded from the formal financial system
to perform financial transactions relatively cheaply, securely, and
reliably.
Ukodie also stated that mobile broadband
infrastructure and services that could enhance the digital life and its
associated benefits are still at the low level and stakeholders need to be
galvanized to achieve the 2018 broadband penetration projections.
Again, he said Nigeria is yet to access the benefits
of digital broadcasting and talks about the Nigerian content were yet to
achieve the desired results.
The eWorld Forum 2016 seeks to provide answers to
these questions and provide a platform for stakeholders to once again address
these vital issues and provide achievable roadmap and strategy for achieving
stakeholders’ yearnings, especially in this era of Change.
The objective of the Forum is to identify the
technology trends in digital financial services over the coming years and how
the role of various stakeholders in this ecosystem will evolve. This will
include identifying underlying frameworks, new business models and public
private partnership arrangements necessary for digital financial services.
The Forum would also create a platform for dialogue
between the telecom and financial services regulators to discuss emerging
issues and best practices for the policy and regulatory framework for financial
inclusion and re-examine the roadmap for achieving the 2018 broadband
projection.
The eWorld Forum, coordinated by Ajomedia Limited,
publishers of eWorld Magazine, began in 2009 and have continued to hold yearly
since. In 2010 the Forum on Broadband, with Professor Raymond Akwule, President
of Digital Bridge Institute as Keynote Speaker, was used, for the first time,
to call for and articulate a broadband strategy for Nigeria.
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