FG to create documentary, data infrastructure on creative economy

The Federal Ministry of Art, Culture, Tourism and Creative Economy (FMACTCE), says plans are underway to produce documentary series and as well develop a data infrastructure catalogue on Nigeria’s creative economy.

The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that Mrs Ugochi Akudo-Nwosu, Ag. Permanent Secretary of the ministry, stated this on Thursday at an industry stakeholders engagement meeting in Abuja.

The meeting brought together key players from different genres of the creative sector to share ideas and get their inputs on the proposed documentary series and the data infrastructure catalogue.

The Ag. Permanent Secretary, who was represented by Mrs Blessing Onwughalu , Assistant Director, Entertainment and Creative Economy Department of the ministry, said both projects were aimed at accelerating the growth of Nigeria’s creative economy.

According to her, despite the exponential growth of the nation’s creative ecosystem, it remains largely untapped due to lack of investment in the sector.

She identified inadequate funding, lack of physical creative infrastructure, lack of data infrastructure and access to verifiable data and piracy, as some of the challenges facing the sector.

“The lack of data, access to data and verifiable information on the Nigerian creative economy is one of its greatest challenges as it impedes on investment into the sector by willing investors, hence today’s programme.

“In order to mitigate this huge challenge, the ministry is embarking on a documentary project on the Nigeria creative economy.

“Also, is the development of a data infrastructure catalogue which will go a long way to address the dearth of data on the Nigeria creative economy.