In a bid to bring the Digital Service Industry to the front burner of the economic diversification of President Mohammadu Buhari, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) on Thursday presented its draft on National Outsourcing Strategy for Nigeria (NOSN) to stakeholders in an online engagement workshop for better service delivery.
In his address, the Director-General of NITDA, Mr. Kashifu Inuwa, said the workshop aimed at ensuring the effective implementation of the National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy (NDEPS) of the Federal Government.
The DG said that the strategy was in line with government initiative and priority projects such as the Economic Recovery and Growth Plan and digitization of government services, stating that the strategy will lift Nigerians out of poverty and transform the country to a knowledge-based economy in the wake of the current global pandemic.
He stated that the strategy implementation processes focused on seven pillars, which included the development of infrastructure, skill, and human capital, branding and promotion, digital finance, and incentives.
He said others were innovation and entrepreneurship, trust, privacy, and security, as well as multi-stakeholder governance engagement.
According to him, the journey is to explore the future to identify potential scenarios and to take the steps that are needed to potentially shape it.
“With the recent government initiative to make Nigeria a leading digital economy coupled with the government promise to lift 100 million Nigerians out of poverty NITDA under the supervision of Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy has refocused its effort to the implementation of the National Digital Economy Strategy.
“This resonates with what is happening globally. Digital economy was emerging before COVID-19 and now the crisis has made it more profound