The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) has opened a portal for the submission of ideas from Nigerians for this year’s World Creativity and Innovation Day.
The portal http://bit.ly/NITDA21WCID is opened today being April 12, 2021 till April 17, 2021. Entries will be evaluated and assessed by April 19, 2021 and successful ones will be required to do a 5-minute live pitch on Wednesday, April 21, 2021.
This year’s theme is “Inspiring Creativity and Innovation in the Nigerian Digital Economy”. This is to harness innovative and impactful solutions for the development of a vibrant digital economy.
The World Creativity and Innovation Day is a global UN day celebrated to raise awareness around the importance of creativity and innovation in problem-solving with respect to advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) also known as the “global goals”.
NITDA said all Nigerians with innovative and impactful working solutions should submit entries for the Innovation Challenge, explaining that solutions will be evaluated based on job and wealth creation potential, originality, marketability, scalability and inclusiveness.
Successful entries will have an opportunity to present their solutions to the Tech Industry Stakeholders.