The chief executive officer (CEO) of internet Solutions, Mr.
Olusola Teniola has called for adequate protection for digital business
ecosystems in the country, reports DigitalSENSE
Business News.
Delivering a paper on “The challenges posed by legal and
regulatory framework” in Lagos last weekend at the 5th annual West
Africa ICT Congress and Exhibition, Mr. Teniola said that in order for digital
businesses to thrive in the country and grow to their potentials, such
businesses must be protected.
This, he told DigitalSENSE
Business News, could be effective done through assurances of due process
comprising the entrepreneurs civil and economic rights which must be protected
against abuses of monopoly power.
He also charged policy makers to focus on their traditional
responsibility so as to spur competitive environment and access to networks.
He stressed that at Internet Solutions and sister company
Dimension Data, they strongly believe this theme of discuss is relevant to the
current state of the industry in order to develop and fully enjoy the dividends
of the digital ecosystem in the West Africa region.
All developing countries of the world, he noted, desire to
establish policies that regard the digital ecosystem as critical national
infrastructure, thus qualifying for a special government protection.
“We must move away from the ideology of government for
development of the digital ecosystem as digital entrepreneurs in the private
sector arise to take on the challenges of bringing digital dividends to West
Africa,” he said.
Pointing out that in countries without a strong rule of law,
Teniola said, digital entrepreneurs could be oppressed through withholding of
licenses, spurious charges lodged and interconnection with the monopoly telco
disrupted.
Chuks Egbuna/GEE
Pix: Mr. Teniola and Ndukwe, Uwaje and Glo Tech Director at WAFICT’13
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