ITU, NCC partner to hold ITU-FCDO Roundtable and Technical Workshop on the United Kingdom’s DAP.
The ITU-FCDO Roundtable and Technical Workshop around the theme of Building capabilities for sustainable and inclusive digital transformation in Nigeria will take place on 23-24 August 2022 at Transcorp Hilton Hotel, Federal Capital Territory in Abuja, Nigeria.
The event is organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) and the Nigeria Commissions Commission (NCC) in the context of the ITU-FCDO partnership on the implementation of the United Kingdom’s Digital Access Programme (DAP) activities.
The roundtable and technical workshop aim to deepen the understanding of business models and regulatory frameworks for promoting digital inclusion in Nigerian context, with emphasis on expanding last mile connectivity and its accompanying infrastructure and services in unserved and under-severed communities. Stakeholders will share and gain insights for leveraging broader trends in digital transformation with lessons learned for advancing digital skills and opportunities for young people. Insights from the panel discussions of the first day and the co-created ideas and suggestions of the second day of the roundtable will serve as input for the development of a policy brief on the building of capabilities for sustainable and inclusive digital transformation in Nigeria.
OBJECTIVES
The ITU-FCDO Roundtable and Workshop themed Building capabilities for sustainable and inclusive digital transformation in Nigeria serves as a platform to gather partners to explore, share and present on the work that has been undertaken to date across the different pillars. The event is organized to provide stakeholders an opportunity to reflect upon Nigeria’s digital transformation, the impact that initiatives aimed at contributing towards the country’s digital inclusion goals like the ITU-FCDO DAP partnership has in the country, and allow stakeholders to share their plans for future work to scale the impact in a joint effort.
The first day of the event will take the form of high-level panel sessions while the second day will be dedicated to technical workshop session that allow experts to go deeper into some of the topics with a view to developing guidance that may inform further interventions and project activities.
The event will cover the following sub-themes and topics:
- Business models and enabling environment for meaningful and affordable digital connectivity;
- Development of digital skills and complementary capabilities in Nigeria’s digital economy;
- Forward-looking approaches, polices and regulation to keep pace with the fast evolution of technologies and innovations that power digital transformation.
PARTICIPATION
The event aims to bring together ITU, FCDO DAP partners in Nigeria, officials in charge of telecom/ICT such as those in the Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy, Ministry of Science and Technology, Ministry of Youth and Sports, Ministry of Labour and Employment, Ministry of Education, among others.
The roundtable and technical workshop sessions also target stakeholders in the organized private sector and regulators with focus on mobile network operators, Internet service providers, telecommunication infrastructure companies, finance, digital skills training institutes alongside academia, NGOs and community organizations, especially those who work in connectivity, digital inclusion and digital capacity related projects.
Source: https://www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Regional-Presence/Africa/Pages/EVENTS/2022/roundtable-nigeria.aspx