NITA Boss assures Nigerian counterpart of effective collaboration

The Director-General for National Information Technology Agency (NITA) Mr. Richard Okyere-Fosu has expressed appreciation for the efforts being made by the Nigerian National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in fortifying and fostering the nation’s IT ecosystem toward a sustainable digital economy.

While giving assurances of keying into NITDA’s regulatory instruments and implementation of policy documents, Mr.Fosu expressed his agency’s commitment to work closely with NITDA in bridging the gaps identified in Ghana and Africa as a whole.

Mr. Okyere-Fosu made this known at a corporate headquarters of the NITDA in Abuja when he led the Ghanaian delegation to Nigeria for a 3- day working visit to understudy Nigeria’s IT regulatory instruments, policy documents and seek possible areas of collaboration.

He disclosed that NITA’s supervising ministry has similarly expanded its mandate to include digitalization and is now known as the Ministry of Communications and Digitalisation which in his opinion has brought out the importance of digitalisation.

“This is not a one-time visit but we will definitely come back. We have come to learn and hope that we can make the needed impact in Ghana”, he stated.

On his part, the Director General for the Nigerian National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Mr. Kashifu Inuwa CCIE said he believes that effective collaborations among the nations in the continent would build a formidable and greater Information Technology (IT) ecosystem.

Describing the visit of the delegation from Ghana as a step in the right direction towards the development of Africa’s IT ecosystem, Inuwa stated that it was an imperative collaboration needed to achieve a common goal.

Stating that no one can succeed in isolation, he asserted that “if we really want to succeed as a continent, we need to collaborate, we need to work together. We need to learn from our experiences and share expertise so that we can work and grow together”.

Stating that IT is borderless, the NITDA boss said that the agency had developed various regulatory instruments, policy documents and initiatives to create an enviable IT ecosystem in the country which has been making huge impacts within the continent and globally.

While confidently stating that Africa has a competitive advantage of talent and population in the fourth industrial revolution, Inuwa opined that a symbiotic relationship between the two countries would engender disruptive innovations that will solve many challenges pervading the continent.

“This kind of visit will strengthen the relationship between our two agencies and build a stronger IT ecosystem in Africa. We are doing well in Nigeria but we want everybody to do well when it comes to technology”, he noted.