Digital connectivity enhances high quality of life – Danbatta

The Govt Vice Chairman (EVC) of the Nigerian Communications Fee (NCC), Prof. Umar Danbatta, has stated in Lagos that the standard of life is now being measured by way of digital connectivity that promotes companies, social and financial wellbeing of the residents.

Danbatta, who spoke at the moment via NCC’s Director of Digital Economic system, Dr. Augustine Nwulunne, in a keynote on the 2022 Africa Tech Alliance Discussion board in Lagos on Wednesday, stated digital connectivity has a significant function in advancing the good points of growth and sustaining the long run, in addition to attaining the wanted quota in achieving a sustainable future and actualizing the targets of the Sustainable Improvement Objectives (SDGs).

The EVC, who spoke on the theme, “Making a Sustainable Future via Connectivity”, cited research to buttress the centrality of digital connectivity to high quality of life and acknowledged that the NCC is devoted to activating regulatory initiatives aimed toward deepening connectivity for the general financial growth of Nigeria.

“Connectivity and growth in Nigeria haven’t been fortuitous, somewhat they’ve been because of measured, painstaking and strategic insurance policies implementation within the telecommunications sector by the NCC and related stakeholders, and we’re dedicated to driving sturdy and vibrant telecoms sector to reinforce additional progress of Nigerian economic system in all its spheres,” the EVC stated.

In keeping with him, telecommunications sector has turn into an enabler of financial progress, offering the required digital succours that convey higher effectivity in service deliveries in schooling, healthcare, transportation, commerce, monetary providers, and different sectors of the economic system with higher impression on the nation’s Gross Home Product (GDP) in addition to enhancing different sectoral progress correlating to every of the 17 objectives on the SDGs.