More efforts should be invested in encouraging the development of IT and Telecoms expertise in Nigeria. "The biggest market", "the fastest growing teledensity" or just "the biggest consumers"? Consumption alone cannot engender growth. There is a need to develop human capacity in areas such as: technical, management, research and development, security, strategic and operational. For example, while there has been a cyber café boom, management has been a major source of concern for cyber café businesses.
Also with the many IT and Telecoms projects that are taking off, project management skills will be required to get benefit.
Human development in ICT can be encouraged through increased awareness of opportunities and capabilities in ICT. The environment should encourage ICT education and provide incentives especially for those investing in research, development, training, software and other creative efforts. Acquiring infrastructure is great but it is serious investment in education that will bridge the digital divide and enhance the quality of infrastructure, the quality of access, the quality of usage, the quality of growth.
Initiatives from profit-driven members of the private sector should be encouraged, but such schemes are on their own not enough to make Nigeria an ICT-capable country or a key player in the global ICT revolution.
An emphasis on infrastructure would widen access to ICT facilities. Nigeria can't afford the luxury of ignoring the multiplier effects of access to ICT. Nigeria has certainly done well so far in improving infrastructure capacity in "record time", now it's time to start focusing on quality.
At the end of the day, infrastructure is not just about access, it's about what you do with access.
Level of Awareness
The main issue facing Nigeria and its ICT program is “quality manpower.” The primary reason that ICT has not grown in the country is attributed to the fact that Nigerian workforce lacks essential computer literacy and IT preparation. Poverty is an obstacle for the computer educational program, in a country where education itself, has become highly controversial.
Government districts administrate over the Nigerian educational system, although the private sector has become increasingly popular. Government schools are notorious for unsuccessful curriculums and unconcerned teachers, making private schooling a seemingly wiser alternative. Most of the people who own private schools genuinely care about a solid educational system.
Infrastructural Vandalism
As infrastructural vandalism continue to affect efficient service delivery in the telecom industry, there is need for a concerted effort to curtail the hydra-headed problem affecting the sector became pronounced.
In these days, 'area boys' would optically prevent telecommunications companies from gaining access to their base stations supply diesel to generators at the base stations.
In many instances, as the delay prolonged, several base stations would go down, creating network outages for the telecom companies and severe problems for millions of subscribers.
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