Digital legislation: Experts seek professionals’ involvement
Expert in Nigeria’s digital ecosystem has urged the government and innovation drivers to adopt a professional approach to the regulations that could stifle digital innovations.
They argued that such regulations could prevent entrepreneurs from contributing effectively to the nation’s economic development.
This expert position is coming on the heels of the World Economic Forum (WEF) from the Networked Readiness Index (NRI), ranking Nigeria behind Rwanda and Ghana on e- readiness.
A Steering Committee Member of the Nigeria Health Innovation Marketplace (NHIM), Idris Bello, who stated this position at the Lagos Startup Week (LSW), posited that “Legislations can inhibit innovation and therefore, we need to understand that we cannot use old laws from the past to regulate the future because it does not understand it, more so a growing economy.”
He mentioned the advent of drones in Nigeria and Ghana, in which both countries came up with measures against the use of drones, which inhibited its application, stressing that Rwanda adopted a learning approach to understand the technology.
With this technology coupled with the others, which they adopted through a learning approach, they have been able to harness to address several social issues in their countries.
“We need technology professionals in our legal system and the medical system that will help in making legislations on the unending technological development,” Bello add
Stories by Tony Nwakaegho
