When the app meets an analogue economy: What Uber’s exit should make Nigeria ask
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- The article argues that Nigeria has adopted digital applications and devices faster than it has built the infrastructure needed to use them effectively.
- It presents Uber's exit as a prompt to examine the country's physical, institutional and information systems.
- The National Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan is cited as an existing framework, but the article questions whether plans are being implemented.
Nigeria has embraced applications and digital devices, but the country remains more digitally connected than digitally organised. That gap, the article argues, limits the economic value technology can deliver.
The deeper problem is not a shortage of plans. Nigeria already has a National Integrated Infrastructure Master Plan. The challenge lies in building the physical, institutional and information infrastructure needed to support the digital tools people have adopted.
Against that backdrop, Uber's exit becomes a question for Nigeria: what happens when an app encounters an economy whose systems remain largely analogue?
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Originally published by Premium Times in English. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.
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