Introduction
Raymond Onuoha is a Research Fellow at the Lagos Business School, Nigeria, where his research focuses on the institutional and policy challenges in the evolution of the digital economy and technology innovation in developing countries, with a special focus on sub-Sahara Africa. He led the certification strategy team of the Jobberman Alpha Digital Project in 2016, and also was a lead participant of the Africa Digital course, in collaboration with the Centre for Global Enterprises (CGE), New York, USA. He has worked on policy research collaborations between the Lagos Business School and the Research ICT Africa (RIA) on projects that entailed rigorous engagements with policy makers and the multi-stakeholdership within the ICT ecosystem in sub-Saharan Africa, proffering stakeholder-agreeable outcomes. He is currently engaging policymakers and stakeholders in the digital ecosystem in understanding the gaps in the creative and agricultural sectors of Nigeria on how the internet can enable job creation and access to finance. Asides several policy and industry project reports, Raymond co-authored the paper – Platforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: Startup Models and the role of Business Incubation, which was published by the Journal of Intellectual Capital in 2018. Raymond is a doctoral student at the Nelson Mandela School of Governance, University of Cape Town, South Africa where his thesis interrogates platform competition policy in the multi-sided telecommunications market, and its investment and innovation imperatives for social welfare in developing economies. He had previous academic backgrounds in Physics, Economics and Statistics from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, and the University of Benin respectively, both in Nigeria.
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Raymond Onuoha is a Research Fellow at the Lagos Business School, Nigeria, where his research focuses on the institutional and policy challenges in the evolution of the digital economy and technology innovation in developing countries, with a special focus on sub-Sahara Africa. He led the certification strategy team of the Jobberman Alpha Digital Project in 2016, and also was a lead participant of the Africa Digital course, in collaboration with the Centre for Global Enterprises (CGE), New York, USA. He has worked on policy research collaborations between the Lagos Business School and the Research ICT Africa (RIA) on projects that entailed rigorous engagements with policy makers and the multi-stakeholdership within the ICT ecosystem in sub-Saharan Africa, proffering stakeholder-agreeable outcomes. He is currently engaging policymakers and stakeholders in the digital ecosystem in understanding the gaps in the creative and agricultural sectors of Nigeria on how the internet can enable job creation and access to finance. Asides several policy and industry project reports, Raymond co-authored the paper – Platforms in Sub-Saharan Africa: Startup Models and the role of Business Incubation, which was published by the Journal of Intellectual Capital in 2018. Raymond is a doctoral student at the Nelson Mandela School of Governance, University of Cape Town, South Africa where his thesis interrogates platform competition policy in the multi-sided telecommunications market, and its investment and innovation imperatives for social welfare in developing economies. He had previous academic backgrounds in Physics, Economics and Statistics from the Federal University of Technology, Owerri, and the University of Benin respectively, both in Nigeria.
Fields of expertise: Communication and information/ICTs, e-Transformation / e-Governance, Science policy, technology and innovation policy
