Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Prof. Isa Ali Pantami, has advised African nations to embrace Fourth Industrial revolution (4IR) for development.
He lamented that the African economic situation was worrisome, considering that of the world’s economy worth $101.6 trillion, the entire continent’s wealth, with a population of 1.6 billion, is less than that of Japan, which is $4.4 trillion.
The minister also urged African countries to come up with laws that support young innovators to be job providers. He reminded Africans that 4IR deals on digital technologies yet to be fully embraced nations on the continent. “Our population growth is higher than the economic growth. Where the population growth is higher than the country’s economic growth, the implication is that poverty will continue to increase if we do not arrest it. Our population is very important, but we must seize the advantage by being very proactive in adopting emerging technologies.”
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