The Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC) has identified challenges preventing data mining in the country.
NCC identified lack of skilled personnel, data security and protection, coordination, poor development of e-governance, uptake of e-services as well as duplication and control of national data by various agencies and private sector players.
Data mining according to wikipedia is a process of extracting and discovering patterns in large data sets involving methods at the intersection of machine learning, statistics, and database system.
In a document titled, “Emerging role of data and Fintech in the development of digital economy”, NCC observed that there exists “massive pool of data yet untapped and considered to be one of the most valuable available resources.”
The study by the Emerging Technologies Research Unit of the Research and Development Department of NCC observed that the new economy “is considered to be focused on the rapid real time, analysing the flows of unstructured data often in the form of streams of photos and videos generated by users of social networks, streams of information produced by commuters on their way to work, flood of data from hundreds of sensors in a jet engine and more.”
On the lack of skilled manpower, the document noted that for the goal of data mining to be achieved, there has to be active engagement of well-learned and technically sound knowledge and skill, which cut across diverse sectors such as education, agriculture, telecommunications and healthcare.
According to NCC, statistical data culled from experiences of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) implementation in Nigeria point to critical challenges posed by lack of comprehensive, up-to date, monitored and harmonised data.
The commission said also inclusive was the lack of comprehensive data production strategy for proper monitoring as the responsibilities of those who produce the data have not been properly outlined besides inappropriate methodologies for computation of indicators.
The report also stated that the duplication and control of national data by various agencies and private sector players was a challenge to data mining in the country.
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