Technical Education and Local Content Development: A Panacea for Bridging Global Digital Divide
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The global digital divide is a concept linked
not only to the issue of access to the internet, but also to the
issue of content, platform development and usage benefit.
The polarization of Information and Communications
Technology's knowledge, design and production access
between the developed countries and developing economies
has resulted into a 'digital diametrical world'; one
producing technology and the other consuming what it
cannot produce. Again, The lack of cognitive skills and
design access has turned Africa into a dumping ground for
these new technologies while equally turning Africa's best
brains to repairers rather than creators of new age
technologies. This paper employs analytical research
method to explain the concept of Local Content
Development in Nigeria's fledgling telecommunications
sector and examines the implications of non-availability of
cognitive skills and know-how in the ICT sector, on national
development.
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