FG Unveils New ICT Framework for Women, Youths

The Federal Government has unveiled a new Information and Communication Technology (ICT) paradigm that would lead to a greater number of women and youths having unhindered access to IT knowledge for wealth creation and improvement of their socio economic well-being.

A statement signed by Hajia Hadiza Umar on Tuesday in Abuja on behalf of  the Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mr. Peter Jack, said the process involves making available infrastructure that would enable women and youths have easy and strategic access to e-commerce, e-government, e-education and e-society, infrastructure.

Jack restated the agency’s commitment to using ICT tools to create over 1.2 million jobs in two years with the proposed 200,000 community digital access centres across the country with a triangular business model to cater for corner shops, internet access centres and business centres.

According to him, the effective use of ICT knowledge is becoming the most critical factor for rapid economic growth and wealth creation, and for improving socio-economic well-being and for Nigeria to be globally competitive in the 21st century.

He said: “A critical factor would be government’s ability to harness knowledge potential using ICT. With over 140 million people all together, females’ constituting about 49 percent and one-third of Nigeria’s population below 25 years old.”

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