NSE: WEAK, UNCOORDINATED FEEDBACK SYSTEM SLOWING COMMUNICATIONS SECTOR'S GROWTH
slow pace in creating the enabling environment for the sector was hindering the full realisation of Private Sector Participation (PSP) and exploitation of the huge opportunity created by the adoption of digital technologies.
The Society observed that there wass limited investment and transparency in the development and deployment of technologies and innovations as well as the requisite human capital development to intervene and mitigate the recurrence of annual flooding.
The engineering body stated that to sustain the advancement of communication and digital economy, the government in collaboration with the private sector and other key stakeholders should ensure implementation of policies and strategies and enforce compliance with laws and regulations.
“To create a favourable enabling environment for the digital economy to strive, government needs to increase investment and partnership in the provision of modern communication infrastructure to enhance the sustainable growth of digital environment for efficiency.
“It needs to strengthen the critical enablers to motivate the service providers for sustainable quality service delivery.
“It should promote private sector led and government facilitation in the expansion and deepening rural and urban market structure integration through the deployment of digital technologies and innovations.
“There should be deliberate effort to remove the existing barriers in human and institutional capacity development within the public sector and between the private sector to ensure synergistic operations and complementarity in communication and digital innovation,” the communiqué added.