The Universal Service Provision Fund (USPF) has held
its zonal stakeholders engagement forum on Information and Communication
Technology (ICT) utilization and sustainability in coal city, Enugu, Enugu
State, reports ITRealms.
The forum, ITRealms
gathered is part of USPF interventions to improve the livelihoods of unserved, underserved
communities and groups in the areas of wealth creation, education, agriculture
and health recently held a workshop in Enugu for the South East Zone to engage
stakeholders on ICT utilization and sustainability.
ITRealms also
reports that USPF’s Community Resource Centres (CRC), and the School Knowledge
Centres (SKC), officials say are two intervention projects with potential to
engender, create, and ensure community sharing and adoption of ICTs in everyday
activities.
The workshop, ITRealms
further reports, was designed to enhance the transformation and optimal use of
these Centers as innovation hubs that can serve to incubate technology and
promote socio-economic development in Nigerian communities.
ITRealms recalls
that the Fund, established under the Nigerian Communications Act 2003, is a
department of the Nigerian Communications Commission that facilitates the
achievement of national policy goals for universal access and universal service
to information and communication technologies (ICTs) in rural, un-served and
under-served areas in Nigeria.
Accordingly, the Fund is being managed to facilitate
the widest possible access to affordable telecommunications tools, applications
and services for greater social equity and inclusion for the people of Nigeria.
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Pix: USPF team at South East Stakeholder meeting.
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