THE Nigeria Data Protection Bureau (NDPB) has said that Nigerians need to leverage on opportunities that abound in the data protection ecosystem.
The National Commissioner of NDPB, Dr Vincent Olatunji, said this at a one-day capacity building on Data Protection and Privacy for members of the Nigeria Information Technology Reporters Association (NITRA) in Abuja, recently.
The training was part of the bureau’s stakeholders’ engagement to create awareness on data protection.
Olatunji said there was a huge gap that existed in the data protection ecosystem that had the capacity to provide wealth and millions of jobs for Nigerians and promote the digital economy.
“Across the globe, people are losing jobs, while others are gaining jobs in the digital economy sector.
“To be part of people gaining jobs, we need to re-skill by learning digital skills because technology is changing, a new world is emerging with the Internet of Things, Big Data, 3D Printing and more.
“In Nigeria, we have about 500,000 data controllers and processors, and according to law, each of these data controllers are meant to have a Data Protection Officer (DPO) that ensures data protection compliance by the controller.
“In Nigeria presently, we are barely 10,000 certified DPOs and that number does not commensurate with the number of data controllers in the country,” he said.
Olatunji said that the gap was huge, adding that Nigerians could develop themselves with skills to qualify as DPOs.
According to him, the data protection sector is an open field that anyone can venture into as long as they can read and write.
He said, “In the past two years, the data protection ecosystem have created over 9,000 jobs, it is an ecosystem that can create direct and many indirect jobs.”
Olatunji added that in ensuring compliance level of data controllers, there had been positive results.
He added that from the time of its establishment, the bureau had interrogated seven major organisations, fined them and ensured they followed the steps of data protection compliance.
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