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INTRODUCTION
1.1
Background
Over the years, the Federal Government of Nigeria has initiated or adopted several
related policies and laws aimed at guiding the development of the ICT sector and
harnessing its huge potential for national development. But Nigeria, like other
nations, faces the inevitability of the technical, content, economic, institutional and
regulatory convergence in a digital era of the global ICT industry. Nigeria must
therefore continue to evolve new ICT policy frameworks to accommodate
convergence and maximize the potential of ICT for national development.
This National ICT Policy aims to produce a framework that will enhance the ability
of the ICT sector to propel the socio-economic development which is critical to
Nigeria’s vision of becoming a top 20 economy by the year 2020. Concurrently, the
policy document will be used to develop action plans, sub-sectoral policies and
specific implementation strategies.
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