AnthonyNwakaegho/DigitalSENSE Business News
The Nigerian Telecom Development Lecture (NITDEL) 2013
is committed to sharing the development initiatives of telecom stakeholders,
and adding a voice to the chronic problems confronting the telecom industry in
Nigeria, according to Otunba Biodun Ajiboye, the publisher of
Nigerian Telecom News weekly, and chief host of the
event.
Asserting this at 8th edition of NITDEL
2013, Otunba Ajiboye, told DigitalSENSE
Business News in Lagos, that the telecoms lecture concept was initiated as
a platform to synergize the interest of both corporate and political players in
the country.
He also said that the NITDEL initiative had thrived
since its inception in 2007 after the speech of former President Olusegun
Obasanjo was read through the then Minister
of Communication, stressing that it has since become a lecture series that
could create a balance between business and politics.
The Director of Public Affairs Nigerian Communications
Commission (NCC), Mr. Tony Ojobo, who represented the Executive Vice Chairman
of Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), Dr Eugene Juwah at NITDEL lecture
in an interview with DigitalSENSE
Business News said that the organizers of the lecture are looking at
telecom development since generally, around the world and in the continent including Nigeria, probably
to look at ” where we were, and where we are today and where we should be going in terms of telecom and human development.”
He further said, the world is going the way of data
communication, especially with e-applications that have helped in human
development through e-health, e-education, e-commerce, e-agriculture to name a
few.
Ojobo explained that the Broadband will provide the
impetus for human development and cited the World Bank study which indicates
that for “every 10 per cent increase in Broadband penetration is a
corresponding 1.83 per cent in Gross Domestic Product, (GDP).The Broadband is
connected to human development and that is the way we are going.
“As you are aware the commission already have an
initiative in that area of Broadband and of course even the government has set
up a Broadband Council which NCC is a member, and we believe that the way for the future in
telecoms is data, and Broadband is actually the technology driving that now,”
he said.
Pix: Airtel CEO,Segun Ogunsanya,NITDAL organiser,Otunba Biodun Ajiboye,Gov. Osun,Reuf Aregbesola
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