NITDA is regulating IT for development – DG

The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) on Wednesday said Information Technology (IT) regulation was all about regulating for development.
The Director-General of NITDA, Dr Isa Pantami, made this known at the 27th National Conference of the Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) in Ibadan.
The conference theme is: “Digital Inclusion: Opportunities, Challenges and Strategies”.
According to him, the regulation of IT is not to stifle IT development but to make things easy for stakeholders in the industry.
“NITDA has taken steps to ensure that digital inclusion is adopted in the IT industry and for this to happen, there is need for an enabling environment”.