MTC Managing Director Dr. Licky Erastus says the telco is ready to help drive a smart economy and usher the country into digitalization, parallel to the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
“As a nation, if we are to be competitive and be a fit global economic player, we need to hybridize, take advantage of big data analytics, artificial intelligence, and e-commerce to recapture Covid-lost grounds and develop domestic digital industrial policies that will prepare us for future technologies,” Erastus said during the official opening of the Ongwediva Annual Trade Fair (OATF).
Erastus also emphasized on the significance of smart collaboration, “the probability of success is more likely if we pull resources and expertise together in the same direction on socio-economic projects. On this score, MTC has partnered with institutions such as the Environmental Investment Fund of Namibia, the Namibia University of Science and Technology, the World Food Program, the United Nations Development Fund, to collaborate on socioeconomic matters and impact driven solutions for Namibia.”
He added; “such partnerships are not our mandate or core responsibility as a business, but we know that such a mammoth task cannot be left solely to the government. To think that way would be a destructive view based on the illusion of separatism. We are part of a greater 081-nation, hence, the importance of collaboration for a sustained systemic change.”
MTC has been the anchor sponsor of the OATF for over 15 years, and has again this year supported the fair with monetary support.
