Speaking on behalf of the government, Kashifu Inuwa, Director General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has called for more efforts on digital content moderation to reduce hate speech, misinformation, and cyberbullying.
The NITDA boss made the rally call while hosting a TikTok team that came to the agency’s corporate offices in Abuja.
According to Inuwa, stakeholder collaboration is critical to the advancement of Nigeria’s digital domain since online activities produce a global repository of human and artificial intelligence (AI) knowledge.
“With the Code Practice for Interactive Computer Service Platforms/Internet Intermediaries in place, this will help in ensuring digital safety in accordance with global best practice and content moderation to enhance security.
“No organization can operate in silos. We need each other for the actualization of our goals and objectives towards service delivery and for the advancement of the nation,’’ the DG said.
Nigeria will use the Code of Practice and collaboration with stakeholders to achieve digital content moderation, according to NITDA, which introduced the code in 2022 to govern the activities of Twitter, Facebook, WhatsApp, Instagram, Google, TikTok, and other social media platforms in the nation.
In her previous remarks, Mrs Tokunbo Ibrahim, Head of Government Regulation and Public Policy at TikTok Nigeria and West Africa, disclosed that NITDA is one of the company’s largest and most important stakeholders in Nigeria, making remarkable progress and contributions to the sector of the digital economy.
She mentioned some of the initiatives and programmes that the TikTok platform has partnered on, such as the Africa Creator Hub, where they run campaigns to support, empower, and educate tech creators on how to explore different parts of the platform and create content, thereby altering their narrative and incorporating values into their work.
We earlier reported that Nigeria’s Ministry of Communications, Innovation, and Digital Economy has launched the country’s first multilingual large language model (LLM) to position Nigeria as a leader in artificial intelligence (AI) development on the continent.
