Media
DEMS Volunteers Launched
Media
DEMS Volunteers Launched to Drive Awareness on Digital
Economy
A team of Nigerian media professionals have launched Digital
Economy Media Volunteers’ (DEMS Volunteers’), with a view of
leading nationwide awareness/campaigns on Digital Economy.
A communiqué issued by the group at the end of the maiden
meeting at the weekend in Lagos and signed by the Director of
Communications, Mr. Peter Oluka, recalled that “Only recently, the
Minister of hitherto Federal Ministry of Communications, Dr Isa
Pantami, in a view strategic necessity, expanded the coast of the
Ministry to include Digital Economy with the intent to galvanise
the economy and prepare the young people, especially, for the
knowledge economy.
“Accordingly”, Mr. Oluka said, “taking inspiration from that
move, we are floating DEMS Volunteers’ to step up awareness and
deepening of knowledge in every issue that has to do with the
concept of digital economy IN ALL SECTORS OF THE ECONOMY with the
aim of encouraging both public and private sectors to adopt
policies and practices of the emerging knowledge economy.”
“This year, our activities will include reaching out to key
players in MDAs, banking industry, oil and gas, telecoms,
transportation, trading, service sector, hospitality and health,
education, agriculture, manufacturing and others with facts and
figures on the gains of aligning their operations with the global
trends in digital economy so as to keep the Nigerian economy
competitive above its peers. Seminars, book launches, conferences
and quarterly workshops will be part of DEMS Volunteers’ strategies
in the course of our nationwide activities.
“The board also agreed that in the course of our 2020
activities, DEMS Volunteers’ will encourage intending partners and
membership beyond the media to include professionals in public
finance, oil and gas, telecoms, academia, manufacturing and other
strategic sectors as part of efforts to deepen awareness in the
adoption of digital economy in Nigeria.
The communiqué also announced appointments into the leadership
of the DEMS Volunteers’ as follows:
Prince Stan Okenwa, Director General, and South East Coordinator
Martin Ekpeke, Director of Administration and South-South
Coordinator Alhaji Yushau Shuaib, Director, Northern Operations,
Alhaji Jaafar Jaafar as Deputy. Wale Oguntokun, Director, Western
Operations and
Peter Oluka, Director of Communications
In his remarks at the end of the inaugural meeting, DEMS
Volunteers’ DG, Prince Okenwa called on MDAs, professionals and
corporate citizens “to open their doors to welcome DEMS Volunteers’
as partners in the Nigerian projects with supports and operational
ideas in the interest of the nation’s march to knowledge
economy.
Signed:
Peter Oluka, Director of Communications
(DEMS Volunteers’)