Despite its infrastructural challenges, Nigeria is among the top three countries in the emerging broadband markets, according to the first Global Connectivity Index, GCI, on West Africa released at the weekend by Huawei Technologies.
Covering 50 countries including Nigeria among others and 90% of the world’s population, the 2015 GCI, highlited on the growing opportunities around the world.
Although all economies are digitizing, the GCI provides a guide of which country is ahead, behind , why and who is poised to move up or back.
The Index , among other things benchmarks 50 economies in terms of connectivity, ICT usage, and digital transformation.
Recommendation:
For a better connected West Africa, Huawei GCI ecommended increased datacenter investment, developing economies need to move from Investing in supply to building demand and learning from developing countries’ success to become Global GCI leaders.
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