Nigeria FinTech Landscape - Impact Assessment

....creating an opportunity for Nigeria to be an outsourcing hub to drive apprenticeship... 5: Nigeria can be positioned as an outsourcing hub for talent to gain access to real life problems across the globe FinTech are unable to absorb all/most local tech talent... 1 - Limited Bandwidth: FinTech are still growing and have limited capacity to take on interns for training ..however, there is growing global demand for talent... 1 million open IT jobs Set up outsourcing hubs 2 Limited Resources: Potential to build a pipeline that is significantly more than what FinTech can absorb $3.8 trillion global IT spending 5 major big tech hubs across Africa Partnerships with global outsourcing companies Tell success stories Partnerships with private players to develop hubs with necessary infrastructure e.g. quality broadband, electricity etc. Potentially create special trade. zone for tech outsourcing Drive rapid uptake by partnering with global tech outsourcing firms like Tech Mahindra to set up shop in Nigeria Create awareness of Nigeria's outsourcing hub to create more demand 1. Google, IBM (2), Microsoft (2) SOURCE: Smithsonian Science Education Center, 2018, Gartner EFINA 91

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