Stories by Emma Okonji
The federal authorities, by means of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) and the SATH Foundation, is collaborating with business stakeholders to develop expertise innovation ecosystem for Nigeria that may kind a benchmark for world competitiveness within the expertise house.
Driven by NITDA, and with a committee already put in place to improve the initiative, NITDA, in Lagos, introduced a pilot report of the committee’s TechOutlook 2026, which lined 5 key sectors that embody: Financial Services, Telecommunications, Commerce & Trade, Government Services and Healthcare.
Speaking in the course of the TechOutlook 2026 pilot report presentation in Lagos, the Director General of NITDA, Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, confused the necessity for Nigeria to develop its personal expertise innovation ecosystem that may establish current expertise gaps within the choose sectors and supply insights that may redirect authorities coverage, increase expertise innovation and appeal to traders’ curiosity.
“Nigeria needs to develop a globally competitive innovation ecosystem, because we cannot build a globally competitive innovation ecosystem on assumptions, or on data guessing or relying on international estimation, industry reports, and individual successes. Nigeria needs to build ecosystem intelligence, technology intelligence, to drive global competitiveness. Such tech ecosystem will help investors to easily identify opportunities for investment. It will help government to redirect policies. It will help innovators to identify emerging technologies and challenges that need solutions,” Abdullahi mentioned.
Chairman, SATH Foundation, Collins Onuegbu, in his welcome deal with, mentioned the thought behind TechOutlook was to construct a nationwide platform the place the individuals shaping Nigeria’s expertise future may meet annually, take an sincere take a look at the place we’re, anticipate what’s coming, and agree on the priorities that require us to act collectively.
According to him, TechOutlook is designed in such a means that SATH Foundation will proceed as a delivering and managing companion, whereas NITDA and the business will collaborate in joint possession and stewardship by means of a strategic partnership.
