Africa must deploy infrastructure, enhance cybersecurity to bridge digital divide, says Danbatta

Garba Danbatta, executive vice-chairman of the Nigerian Communications Commission , says Africa must deploy infrastructure and enhance cybersecurity to bridge the digital divide.The theme of the event is: ‘Transforming Africa’s digital landscape: empowering inclusion, security, and innovation’.

“Africa would do well to deploy infrastructure and this deployment should be ubiquitous if at all we’re going to have a nature of inclusiveness in the way and manner the internet is going to reach people, not only in the major cities and underserved areas of the continent,” he said. Asked about cybersecurity for telecommunications in Nigeria, the executive vice-chairman said the NCC has a Nigerian computer incidence response team, which daily provides advisory on how telecommunication companies can take measures to protect themselves from malicious attacks within the cyber space.

“We are involved, therefore, in the three categories of the main theme of the IGF — inclusion, security, and innovation.“I think the next step to take is to ensure we raise the bar in the area of inclusion, in the area of enhanced security of our services, as well as in the area of innovation. This we promise we are going to do.

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