Digital connectivity must translate into productivity – Oduwole

The Minister of Industry, Trade and Investment, Dr Jumoke Oduwole, has called for accrued concern successful integer infrastructure.

She said connectivity indispensable construe into productivity and tangible economical opportunities for Nigerians and businesses.

Oduwole made the telephone on Tuesday in Abuja astatine the opening of the Nigeria Digital Connectivity Investment Forum, organised by the Nigerian Communications Commission, NCC, successful concern with Swedfund and Ookla.

The curate described integer infrastructure arsenic a captious constituent of the concern climate, concern competitiveness and planetary trade, stressing that the speech indispensable widen beyond telecommunications to infrastructure required to produce, connect, put and trade.

She noted that fibre networks, information centres, unreality infrastructure, integer platforms, physics payments and unafraid information systems were present arsenic important to the question of goods, services, superior and accusation arsenic ports, highways, obstruction corridors and shipping routes.

“When we talk of trade, we often deliberation astir ports, highways, obstruction corridor...