How can Nigeria's economy be IT driven?

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The coming of Facebook's founder Mark Zuckerberg to Nigeria place the spotlight on Nigeria's software industry. What is the future of software development on the Nigerian Economy? Can our Economy be IT driven? What is Nigeria missing in terms of IT?

Nairadays

Funny as it may seem, LinkedIn was bought for $26 Billion Dollars. A data company for that matter. I think Nigeria has to delve into the area of harnessing data; Big Data to be precise. There's much power in data analytics. We have no data company.
What has happened to vconnect?

techpacify

@Nairadays Vconnect according to Wikipedia, "In Q2 2016, the company began to revisit its business strategy and redesigned its website again." See Reference.

omolayo

Maybe when we begin to value data. Data is key.