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    DEMS Volunteers Launched to Drive Awareness on Digital Economy

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    Peter Oluka
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    January 5, 2020
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    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’)

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