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#AfriTECH2021: Ojobo, AFICTF President, Calls For Digital Equality In Africa

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President and Chairman of the Board, African ICT Foundation (AfICTF), Mr. Tony Ojobo, has called for digital transformation and equality among Nigerians.

Ojobo, a former Director, Public Affairs of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), made the call on Wednesday, October 13, at the African Tech Alliance Forum (AfriTECH2021) organised by TechEconomy.ng.

The hybrid event with strict compliance to COVID-19 protocols under the theme: ‘Embracing Change and Digital Transformation in the New Normal’ was held in Lagos, Nigeria.

The AFICTF President explained that lack of access to technology in rural communities fuels division between urban and the rural population, adding that “the inability to afford devices such as Computers, Smart Phones, and the Internet, Covid-19 put 826 million children out of school in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2020.

“Lack of access to distant learning facilities in rural communities and some demographics in the cities 1.5 Billion students globally were unable to have access to online education during the pandemic in 2020, while 63 million primary and secondary school teachers were unable to teach during the same period.

“The world is embracing more of “Man-to-Machine” and “machine-to-machine” communications. This has implications for HR professionals, jobs, mental health and interpersonal relations.

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L-R: Mr. Timi Fadeyi, Head, DataCentre at Galaxy Backbone Limited; Dr. Ayotunde Coker, Managing Director, Rack Centre; Mr. Tony Ojobo, President, Africa ICT Foundation (AfiCTF) and Aaron Ukodie, Publisher, eWorld Magazine, during AfriTECH2021 held in Lagos recently

“The world has changed. COVID 19 caught the world unprepared. Things will never be the same again. The world as we know it has changed to new normal behaviours, social distancing, vaccination, PCR, face mask use, booster shots, handwashing, hand sanitization etc.

“The following have been affected: education, news gathering and reporting, work culture, organizational behaviour, management functions, marketing, PR, commerce, agriculture, tourism & travels, aviation, sports and business models and strategies.

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“Two things that changed the world significantly; Covid-19 & 9/11 digital transformation entails the following: organizational/culture change (remember Nigerian Ease of business? Still business as usual), operational changes through the use of technology reduced person-to-person interface (curbs corruption).

“Encouragement of machine-to-machine and person-to-machine communications; and establishment of reporting formats and timelines of Bottom –to – top and Top- to- bottom adoption of technology in organizational processes.”

Ojobo, therefore, called for bridging the digital gap between the urban and rural population/schools through the provision of low-cost devices in schools for digital learning.

He also believes that incentivising mobile network operators to provide services in underserved and unserved areas cannot be neglected as adequate budgetary provision for pervasive Broadband infrastructure has become a sine qua non in the continent’s digital transformation journey.

 

 

 

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