in sub-Saharan Africa valued at $130 billion. in sub-Saharan Africa valued at $130 billion.
The NACETEM chief executive said the academy will provide Nigeria with an innovation finishing school for both public and private sectors of the national economy, stressing that “digital economy is Nigeria’s new oil.” “This captive population is young, English educated, and hungry for technology and consume technology rapidly but require a higher degree of digital literacy,” he said.
“In realization of this mandate, the need to use transformative technologies is pertinent. Annually, NACETEM will focus on a few sectors of the national economy and bring its mandate to bear in order to engage and achieve distinguishing economic value in that sector using the best approaches of STI governance. This year NACETEM is focusing on the Marine and Blue economy and ICT digital literacy and digital citizenship,” he stated.