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Digitalisation of MSMEs can increase Nigeria’s GDP by $50bn – NITDA

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July 14, 2023
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Lagos, July 13, 2023: The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) says that digitalisation of Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) could increase Nigeria’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) by 50 billion US dollars.

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The Director-General, NITDA, Mr Kashifu Inuwa Abdullahi, said this during his visit to the GIZ/Digital Transformation Centre, Nigeria office as a special guest at its Techmybiz pitch-a-thon event in Victoria Island, Lagos.

Abdullahi said that digital transformation of MSMEs would help to grow the nation’s economy.

He said that according to recent research, any MSME that transformed digitally could increase its revenue by 26 per cent and reduce cost by 22 per cent.

“Statistical research in 2018 showed that digitally transformed enterprises contributed $13.5 trillion to the global GDP, and it is projected that in 2023, it will reach $53.3 trillion, which is more than 50 percent of the global GDP.

“Therefore, if we in Nigeria can digitally transform our MSMEs, it could add 26 per cent to GDP or to the revenue of the MSMEs.

“Today, MSMEs contribute 43 per cent to Nigeria’s GDP which is about $205 billion. Twenty-six per cent of this means digitisation of our MSMEs can increase our GDP by $53 billion,’’ the NITDA boss said.

He said that the Federal Government was committed to digitally transforming the economy through a seven-point strategic roadmap and action plan.

Abdullahi stressed that federal government regulations was not to stifle businesses, but rather to influence businesses to unlock opportunities using technologies.

According to the NITDA boss, it has many regulations to protect the market, enable innovation and improve service delivery.

He highlighted the strategic action plan that supported MSMEs as a developmental regulation meant to create an enabling environment for startups or MSMEs.

Abdullahi said that the second pillar of the plan was about digital literacy and skills, because digitalisation or digital transformation or digital economy was a knowledge-based economy in which human capital was the most valuable resource.

He said: “NITDA wants to achieve 90 per cent digital literacy by 2030. We want every Nigerian to be able to use digital devices to access digital services.

“Every country needs to field in-country skills and build its digital offering, so NITDA started the initiative of training one million developers in 2022.

“So far, we have trained 219,000 Nigerians on different aspect of technology.

“On digital literacy, NITDA has trained more than three million Nigerians through various channels.’’

The director-general said that the DTC Nigeria was an initiative funded by the German Government and the European Union, but implemented by GIZ with NITDA as the implementing partner.

Abdullahi added that the GIZ/DTC and NITDA are in partnership to bridge the digital divide and are working together to co-create.

Also speaking during the visit, Mr Bunmi Kunle-Dawodu, the State Manager, Small and Medium Enterprises Development Agency of Nigeria (SMEDAN), said that SMEDAN had helped entrepreneurs in a lot of ways.

Kunle-Dawodu said that one of such ways was through implementing its policy document, in which specific programmes had been designed to meet the needs of MSMEs.

He said that its partnership with GIZ Nigeria and DTC had helped businesses to digitalise in many ways as technology had come to stay.

The SMEDAN manager said that driving businesses with technology made it easy for entrepreneurs to showcase their businesses and work better.

“I think and believe that this partnership is timely, and currently, in Nigeria, we have five Unicorn companies.

“SMEDAN is looking at how to increase the Unicorn within the country and if possible, transit such companies to decagons and onboard so many with the partnership with DTC and SMEDAN,’’ he said.

He said that the Techmybiz pitch-a-thon was a great event that had produced some pitchers who had solutions to some challenges.

‘’We are hoping to absorb these solutions into some of the work done in SMEDAN,’’ Kunle-Dawodu said.

Techmybiz Pitch-a-thon is an end-to-end digital transformation process implemented with the Innovation Support Network (ISN).

It specifically aims at identifying and showcasing digital solutions developed by Nigerian innovators that are targeted at MSMEs.

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