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The organisers of the 2016 eWorld Forum has said that this
year’s focus is to tackle “Expanding Nigeria’s Digital Frontier In the Change
Era,” reports ITRealms.
The one-day forum scheduled to hold on March 24, according
to the publishers of eWorld Magazine, Mr. Aaron Ukodie, would discuss such
subthemes as the Digital Financial Services and Financial Inclusion, expanding
the Infrastructure and services ecosystem, the role of broadband
infrastructure, digital Broadcasting Ecosystem, the question of the Nigerian
content and ICT as Catalyst for economic rejuvenation, among others.
Ukodie also said that Nigeria’s 2015 slide in performance in
global ICT Development Index shows that the country was yet to overcome its
digital divide challenges and derive maximum benefit from ICTs for her
development.
He said Nigeria has not adequately situated itself in global
growth in digital financial services in the form of mobile money so as to
advance the trend and bring about inclusiveness.
According to him Digital financial services allow millions
of people who are otherwise excluded from the formal financial system to
perform financial transactions relatively cheaply, securely, and reliably.
Ukodie also stated that mobile broadband infrastructure and
services that could enhance the digital life and its associated benefits are
still at the low level and stakeholders need to be galvanized to achieve the
2018 broadband penetration projections.
Again, he said Nigeria is yet to access the benefits of
digital broadcasting and talks about the Nigerian content were yet to achieve
the desired results.
The eWorld Forum 2016 seeks to provide answers to these
questions and provide a platform for stakeholders to once again address these
vital issues and provide achievable roadmap and strategy for achieving
stakeholders’ yearnings, especially in this era of Change.
The objective of the Forum is to identify the technology
trends in digital financial services over the coming years and how the role of
various stakeholders in this ecosystem will evolve. This will include
identifying underlying frameworks, new business models and public private
partnership arrangements necessary for digital financial services.
The Forum would also create a platform for dialogue between
the telecom and financial services regulators to discuss emerging issues and
best practices for the policy and regulatory framework for financial inclusion
and re-examine the roadmap for achieving the 2018 broadband projection.
The eWorld Forum, coordinated by Ajomedia Limited,
publishers of eWorld Magazine, began in 2009 and have continued to hold yearly
since. In 2010 the Forum on Broadband, with Professor Raymond Akwule, President
of Digital Bridge Institute as Keynote Speaker, was used, for the first time,
to call for and articulate a broadband strategy for Nigeria.
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