Arts, Culture and Tourism


 Policy Statement 


IT shall be used to project a positive image of Nigeria's arts and culture and create wealth.


Objectives

  1. To safeguard manuscript and preserve cultural artefacts.

  2. To promote Nigerian cultural heritage on the digital superhighway.

  3. To promote business and tourist activities and generate revenue.

  4. To enable Nigerian to become a net provider of Internet content on the World Wide Web, as opposed to its status of being a net recipient of Internet content.


Strategies

  1. Creating websites to project Nigerian culture.
    a. Use web technology to attract tourist to Nigeria,
    b. Providing facilities to sell Nigerian arts and cultural goods on the Internet,
    c. Encouraging Internet access services, local web hosting, and local web-site design,
    d. Developing a multi-media virtual gallery, and
    e. Developing low cost broadcast, video and film industry.

  2. Introducing state-of-the-art gadgets in the production process.

  3. Capitalise on existing infrastructure such as the Worldspace digital FM broadcasting satellite with its footprint over Africa to develop low cost home office West Africa wide broadcasting stations. 

  4. Establishing more schools for the development of manpower for the multimedia industry.

  5. Establishing community broadcast networks where information can be channelled.

  6. Promoting rapid growth in the use of personal computers for playing indigenous games for example:
    a. Local games like ayo, etc, could be programmed into the computer and sold to the outside world.
    b. Gaming with diversity - games betting via the Internet.

  7. Facilitating the use of the Internet by people with particular hobby and leisure interests.

  8. Developing the trend of interfacing the above development on a multi-media architecture allowing for a range of IT activities to be selected using an array of equipment.

  9. Strengthening infrastructure and related facilities for interactive and reliable networked airline/transport/hotel reservation.

  10. Providing Internet connectivity to major tourist areas with access links to popular search engines for global visibility.