The Executive Vice Chairman (EVC) and Chief Executive
Officer (CEO) of the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Prof. Umar Garba
Danbatta has planned to create wealth during his first five-year office with
8-point agenda, reports ITRealms.
Danbatta who made this disclosure in Lagos, Wednesday at an
international press conference and listed his eight-point agenda to include facilitate
broadband penetration, improve Quality of Service (QoS), optimize usage and
benefits of spectrum, promote ICT innovation and investment opportunities,
facilitate strategic collaboration and partnership, protect and empower
consumers, promote fair competition and inclusive growth as well as ensure
regulatory excellence and operational efficiency.
According to Danbatta, his 8-point agenda is a strategic
vision for the commission to run from 2015 to 2020, guided in the sideline of
the change mantra of President Muhammadu Buhari.
On facilitation of broadband penetration, Danbatta said this
was envisioned to provide and optimise access to and use of affordable fixed
and mobile broadband everywhere in Nigeria, while the second on the list, the
improvement of quality of service, is to promote the availability of reliable,
interoperable, rapidly restorable critical information and communications
technology infrastructure that are supportive of all required services.
For the third agenda, Danbatta assured that optimizing usage
and benefits of spectrum in order to provide diverse and affordable Information
and Communication Technology (ICT) services and ensure spectrum acquisition
does not distort market competition.
On promoting ICT innovation and investment opportunities,
the EVC noted that he is determined to improve the nation’s ability to compete
in the global economy, through increased investment in youth and promotion of small
and medium enterprises (SMEs) for the delivery of new business breakthrough.
On the fifth agenda, the new EVC exposed the vision to facilitate
strategic collaboration and partnership based on developing effective partnership
with relevant stakeholders to foster ICT for sustainable economic development
and social advancement. Whereas his administration will protect and empower
consumers from unfair practices through availability of information and
education required to make informed choices in the use of ICT services.
By promoting fair competition and inclusive growth, Danbatta
said, this agenda line would afford his administration to ensure a competitive
market for communications services that fosters fair inclusion of all actors,
in innovative ways that facilitate new investment, job creation and consumer
satisfaction.
As said by him, all these would facilitate wealth creation
through application of human knowledge and creativity is steadily outpacing wealth
creation through extraction and processing of natural resources.
Knowledge, he said, has increasingly become an important
means for value creation, hence with globalization and the technological revolution
of the last few decades, knowledge has clearly become the key driver of
competitiveness and is now profoundly reshaping the patterns of the world’s
economic growth and activity.
Danbatta’s Eight-Point Agenda
1.
Facilitate
broadband penetration
2.
Improve Quality
of Service (QoS)
3.
Optimize usage
and benefits of spectrum
4.
Promote ICT
innovation and investment opportunities
5.
Facilitate
strategic collaboration and partnership
6.
Protect and
empower consumers
7.
Promote fair
competition and inclusive growth
8.
Ensure regulatory
excellence and operational efficiency
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