Chairman of the Universal Service
Provision Fund (USPF) and Honourable Minister of Communication Technology (CommTech)
Dr. Mrs. Omobola Johnson, has asserted that importance of the recently
concluded Access Gap study by the USPF, saying it would be used for adequate interventions,
reports ITRealms.
Speaking at the recently relaunched
website for USPF in Lagos, Mrs. Johnson told ITRealms that the new website and launch
of ICT Gap clusters would boost the intervention of USPF in the country.
According
to her, subsequently, the USPF will utilize these clusters to identify target
areas, define Universal Access Service (UAS) and map the interventions respectively
to the appropriate communities.
“We
will also share the results of the study with the telecoms operators to enable
them get a detailed view of the needs and demands of the market and assist them
in developing roll out plans for these unreached areas,” she told ITRealms.
Johnson
stressed that the nation forges ahead, the greatest wish of this
administration, she told ITRealms, is
to continue to collaborate with the telecom operators towards closing access
gap in the country and set Nigeria on the path of being a full digitalized
nation.
“We
trust that we can rely on you to continue to be our trusted partners in
deploying and delivering sustainable and impactful projects,” she said.
Mrs.
Johnson further applauded participants at the forum, saying it’s a clear signal
that as stakeholders, “we all share the same vision.”
Just
as she emphasised that the results of the study, would be useful to clarify the
results and how best they could be turned into projects for enhancing services
to the communities.
“We
hope to conclude this forum with a shared understanding about what to do and
what our roles are in accomplishing what we have resolved to do such that when
we leave this room all that will be left to do is to Execute! Execute!! Execute!!!”
she concluded.
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Pix: Johnson and USPF secretary, Maikano
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