Immediate past Director-General of the National Information
Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and Cyber security expert, Prof. Cleopas
Angaye has tasked Nigerian youths to tap on the benefits of the internet,
reports ITRealms.
Angaye who made this call at the third session of the youth
workshop organized as pre-event for the Nigeria Internet Governance Forum
(NIGF) 2014 at the Muson Center, Onikan, Lagos, recently, described the
internet as the global information technology network which has developed more
quickly than any other technology.
ITRealms also
reports that he told the youths that benefits of the Internet, entails that
Nigeria is rated the highest internet accessing country on the continent, noting
that Nigeria has the seventh highest number of mobile phones and the third
highest users of Facebook.
“There are several developmental opportunities for the
youths in Nigeria,” he declared and listed some of these benefits to include venturing
into online games, entertainment, social networking, travel, productivity cum
education, utilities, weather, mobile technology hardware, software; management
solutions.
Others, he said are Global Positioning System (GPS) tracking
solutions, device manufacturing, mobile resellers, app developers, equipment
vendors, content providers, mobile network carriers, mobile web.
The aforementioned, he said, are in addition to mobile
commerce and mobile payments, and mobile retailers.
However, Prof. Angaye pointed out that alongside all these
benefits, there is Internet fraud. He maintained that there are many
opportunities for cyber crime, which come as risk of connectivity.
Pix: Prof. Angaye.
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