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Digital Disaster (DD) Roadmap to 21st Century Digital
Economic Security

Yesterday, global development lessons for the survival of societies and nations of the future was boldly written and documented within the development context and processes of the 19th Century. As we forge ahead in the 21st Century, the greatest challenge facing all nations will no more be the Digital Divide challenge, but the Digital Disaster nightmare - a national nightmare with recurring decimals in Nano dimensions!

Lessons from the global 19th century development curve have shown that science and technology spurred by Research and Development (R&D) formed the bedrock of classification of the growth and development status of nations this created the industrial divide.

In concrete terms, once upon a time, we all lived under the face of this planet before the Agricultural Revolution was transformed into the Industrial Revolution, which consequently led to the mass production of goods and services. But while some nations became conscious of the consequences and the future impact of such developmental phases, others were as it were, asleep and unaware.

 

The consequences thereafter as we now witness today is that suddenly the world became classified into “Industrialized” (or Developed) and “Non-industrialized” (or Non-developed) nations.

These process classifications further led to what we now know as “First World, Second World, Third World and coming soon will be 'No World!' ”. That classification can further be categorised into rich, poor and irrelevant nations.

This century has already started to create a “Digitally Wealthy Nations”. And just as the Industrial Divide created “Rich Nations” and “Poor Nations”, so will the

Digital Divide Disaster (DDD) create “Super Rich Nations” and “Supper Poor Nations” of the future.

The equation will remain relatively the same: that is, the competition between consciously-creative and production-intensive nations and docile consumption-fueled nations (if some are lucky to continue in the existence configuration of the planet earth because some will)- without any fear of contradiction - be wiped out indefinitely!
What is not so crystal clear is how the Digital Disaster

will impact on nations who are now not consciously aware of the dangers of the momentum.
But suffice to state that the greatest danger to any nation in this digital and/or electronic knowledge age, resides in the Software Domain with particular reference to e-government operations and services which should absolutely not be contracted to foreigners but specially restricted and carefully guarded by indigenous human resources.

Preparation for the Digital Disaster therefore, will be determined by the efforts of each nation on how timely and effectively she addresses the issue of its National Informatics Development Policy both in its framework design, implementation, scalability and sustainability.

The engine room of future information societies is the information infrastructure. Software is the heart of this information infrastructure and will be the main determinant of future global development competition.

 
Nigeria with a population of more than 150 million people representing the single largest concentration of the black race, has a great responsibility to mankind within the context of strongly positioning herself with the informatics technology knowledge equation of the future. The time to start is now.
 
 
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