Imo State Governor, Hope Uzodimma, yesterday, unveiled a five-year rolling agenda to digitise the state, which he codenamed, Imo Digital Economy Agenda (IDEA) 2022-2026.
The policy, which is anchored on six strategic pillars -Digital literacy and Skill, Solid Infrastructure, Service Infrastructure, Advocacy, Monitoring and Evaluation, Collaboration and Partnership, involves hooking all the over 600 autonomous communities in the 27 councils of the state into the internet.
According to him, the policy document was conceptualised to harness the Information and Communication Technology potentials to drive new solutions to developmental challenges, which would engender growth, essentially to foster competitiveness, enhance access to information and knowledge, as well as eradicate poverty and ensure social inclusion.
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