OPINION BY CHUKWUEMEKA UWANAKA: West Africa and the metaverse | TheCable
what the ‘new internet’ will be, and why governments in West Africa and investors should invest in this emerging technology. This envisaged ‘new internet’, is how Meta, the parent company of Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram has described the ‘Metaverse’. Meta is leading other stakeholders in the development of the metaverse. While the estimated period for completion of development is ten years from now, some early versions of the metaverse are now in use.
Regulation and some element of control of new and disruptive technologies, will always be a priority for governments. The restrictive action in recent years by some of the governments in the region are evidence of what will be the desire for some level or control and regulation. The recent clamour for more regulation of AI in advanced economies shows that these regulatory concerns are across board, and probably justified.
Abuja, the capital city of Nigeria, is host to the headquarters of the Economic Community of West African States . ECOWAS is the African Union recognized Regional Economic Community for the West African subregion. The headquarters of the ECOWAS Commission which is the executive arm of the REC; the ECOWAS Parliament, its legislative arm; and the ECOWAS Court of Justice, the judicial arm; are all domiciled within the city.
The metaverse can support the training of medical professionals, in a part of the world with some of the worse healthcare system rankings according to the World Health Organisation. The ratio of doctors to population in West Africa is 1.74 to 10,000, compared to 35 per 10,000 in Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development countries.
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