Buhari Names Uzodinma, Other E-Government Council Members

Senator Hope Uzodinma of Imo State was named to President Muhammadu Buhari’s Presidential Council on E-Government and Digital Economy on Friday.

Uzodinma, together with 26 other Nigerians, will now devise strategies for utilizing digital technologies to revolutionize every sector of the country’s economy.

President Buhari noted at the Council’s opening that Uzodinma and others were chosen following “a meticulous and exhaustive procedure.”

He advised Uzodinma to work hard in order to justify the nation’s trust in him.

He stated that the governor of Imo State will collaborate with five other governors, ministries, and private sector representatives to achieve the federal government’s E-Government and Digital Economy goals.

He told Uzodinma and the other members that their appointment was a national responsibility that demanded complete attention.

President Buhari expressed pleasure with the progress Nigeria has made in digital technologies while announcing that Prof Isa Ali Pantami, Minister of Communication and Digital Economy, will chair the Council on his behalf.

Apart from the fact that the information and communication technology sector made a quantum leap in 2020, he claims that its growth rate was crucial in assisting Nigeria’s recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic.

The digital economy is a multifaceted idea

Because of its pervasiveness, the digital economy has evolved into a concept that is far too dynamic and broad to be synthesized and properly defined by a single term. Information technology and e-commerce have been seen as part of it. The digital economy is a new economy built on human intelligence networking. Knowledge, digitisation, virtualisation, molecularisation, integration/internetworking, disintermediation, convergence, innovation, presumption, immediacy, globalisation, and discordance are 12 of its features. These qualities illustrate the digital economy’s novelty and distinction from the industrial economy. The growth of internet use, a new level and type of connectedness among many heterogeneous ideas and people, giving rise to a large new range of combinations, is known as the digital economy. The main things that affect a country’s digital development are its economy, its IT infrastructure, and its laws.

Because of this, the complicated question of how to define and evaluate the digital economy continues since it has many different parts and is always changing.

A multifaceted and holistic perspective is required to better understand the digital economy and its relationships with numerous situations. We chose the EIU’s digital economy model because it was made and tested by one of the most well-known and unbiased economic and industry research groups in the world.

Since 2000, the EIU has conducted a series of surveys in 70 major economies throughout the world. It has attempted to address the difficulties in determining and assessing a country’s “e-readiness.” The EIU altered the name of its rankings from “e-readiness” to “digital economy” in its most recent report, “Digital economy rankings 2010—Beyond e-readiness.” “To reflect the rising significance of ICT in economic (and social) progress,” the adjustment was made. A country’s digital economy, according to the EIU, is essentially a measure of its e-business environment as well as a collection of other indicators that show how open a market is to Internet-based prospects. There are various different benchmarking models for determining a country’s ICT dissemination capabilities. The International Telecommunication Union’s (ITU) model is the most significant among them. ICT infrastructure and access; access and use of ICT by homes and individuals; use of ICT by businesses; the ICT sector; trade in ICT goods; ICT in education; and ICT in government are all areas where the ITU’s model gauges a country’s digitalisation. Benchmarking results are often used by international organizations like the United Nations to show the digital divide on a global scale.

When compared to the ITU’s approach, the EIU’s model is more comprehensive in terms of analyzing states’ and nations’ abilities to use information and communications technology (ICT) to benefit their economies and societies. The methodology evaluates a country’s performance from six angles: ICT connection; business environment; social and cultural environment; legal environment; government policy and vision; consumer and business adoption of ICT; and government policy and vision. This approach is praiseworthy because it takes into account the complex structure of the digital economy, which includes a variety of contextual elements as well as ICT adoption as one of the major categories. Furthermore, the model assesses the digital economy’s process as well as its outcome. As a result, we use the multidimensional model as well as the ranking results derived from a six-point examination of the digital economy. However, we should point out that the assessment’s definition of social and cultural environment is confined to a population’s web literacy, familiarity with the Internet, and openness to it, as well as the workforce’s technological skills. This metric isn’t as good as it could be in terms of how the cultural construct is defined in the mainstream literature.

Culture is a multi-faceted (values, beliefs, artefacts, etc.) and multi-level (national, organizational, and individual) construct that can be characterized in a variety of ways. The mind’s communal programming is what separates members of one group or category from those of another. ” Studies suggest that user behavior in technology diffusion is influenced by culture (in this case, national culture). According to research on Internet user behavior in Saudi Arabia, there is a substantial link between subjective norms and user behavioral intentions in cultures with higher power distance and less individualism, such as those in the Arab world. Low-uncertainty-avoidance cultures use new technical advancements like the Internet more than high-uncertainty-avoidance civilizations. So, we will use the EIU’s model to figure out how big the digital economy is, and we will also look into whether culture has an effect on the digital economy.

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