The Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, Isa Ali-Pantami has disclosed that in the next 10 years 95 per cent of Nigerian would acquire digital literacy, consequent upon which all manual operations would be discarded in the country.
The minister made the disclosure on Friday during an interactive session with the ICT reporters in Abuja.
According to him, communications ministry is embarking on a massive training of Nigerians on digital literacy and skills, in keeping with President Muhammadu Buhari’s Economic Recovery and Growth Plan, ERGP, master plan.
‘‘We are not telling Nigerians to migrate into the digital economy in order to start taxing them unnecessarily.
“The price of data, mobile devices must come down for the digital economy to thrive. We’ve paid toll before stepping on the roads.
‘‘Want to embark on massive training of Nigerians on digital literacy and skills. Want to ensure that at least 95 percent of Nigerians are digital literate.
“Want to enhance the penetration of broadband especially in the underserved and unserved areas in the country through the deployment of solid infrastructure,’’ Mr Pantami noted.
He explained that he had mandated the ministry to develop and implement digital economy and develop a draft of National Digital Economy Policy and Strategy.
According to him, the strategy will ensure that there would be no manual operations in the next 10 years in order to have a digital Nigeria in place.
