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Collaboration
By Constance Athekame
Abuja, Oct. 31, 2016 (NAN) The Minister of Communications, Mr Adebayo Shittu, has expressed the ministry’s readiness to collaborate with the Swedish Government in the area of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
The minister made the pledge when a Swedish Business Delegation visited him in Abuja on Monday.
Shittu said the ministry had developed a new National Roadmap on ICT in line with the administration’s change mantra.
He said the maiden meeting with the Team Business Delegation of Sweden would focus on ICT, prioritised investment sector as communication technology, energy, transportation, ICT infrastructure, banking and finance, among others.
Leader of the delegation, Mrs Ann Linde, Swedish Minister for Trade and European Union (EU) Affairs, said the collaboration would bring about sharing of ideas.
She also said that it would further identify policy benefits, business opportunities, technology solutions and strategic relationship, among others.
“This collaboration would go a long way because Nigeria is the largest economy and also the fastest growing ICT market in Africa’’, Linde said
The Swedish Ambassador to Nigeria Mrs Inger Ultvedt, assured the minister of his country’s full support of the collaboration. (NAN)
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Nigeria to collaborate with Sweden in ICT innovation
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