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Jobs
By Constance Athekame
Abuja, Dec 21, 2016 (NAN) Prof. Vincent Asor, President, Computer Professionals Registration Council of Nigeria (CPN), says digitalisation will create more jobs rather than reducing employment.
Asor, a Professor of Mathematics at Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike, Abia, made this known in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) in Abuja on Wednesday.
According to him, by the time the country becomes fully digitalised, it will go a long way in creating more jobs rather than reducing it as many Nigerians think.
“ People do not really understand the concept of digitalisation until you are into it.
“ I am into it, digitalisation does not reduce jobs but rather it creates more jobs and more opportunities for people to leverage on.
“By the time, we go digital, if you have one person working, you will now have about five people and this will make the work more effective and efficient.
“There will be more computers and those computers will be managed by people.’’
Isor said that ICT had done a lot in the current year and had made people to understand and appreciate the enormous benefit and gain that it had brought into the country.
He said what was expected in 2017 was implementing and harnessing the achievements of the ICT ‘’and what ICT can further do for us’’. (NAN)
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===========Edited by Morayo Omolade