The advent of the Internet, advancement and innovations in the world wide web, the buying and selling of products and services through electronic means, the movement of services to the cloud and mobile devices and the likes, have changed the way we live, work, learn, and do businesses. There is hardly any field of human endeavour today without substantial web or online presence either for information or transactional purposes.
Such developments and advancement in cyberspace as electronic commerce, electronic payment, electronic learning, electronic trading, electronic health, electronic agriculture, electronic governance & electronic government, have exposed a yawning gap for Law practitioners and other industry professionals with sound knowledge of the cyber world.
Furthermore, the emergence of highly disruptive technologies such as Robotics & Artificial intelligence, Internet of Things (IoTs), Advanced Sensors, Block Chain Technologies & its applications (Digital Currencies, Smart Contracts etc), Big Data, Deep learning, Quantum Computing and many other disruptive technologies to come, heralds the dawn of the 4th industrial revolution. Business models and traditional industries are changing and more than ever before, the role of the law practitioner will change.
To address the identified gaps in this new and emerging area- CyberLaw, we have established a Centre with a clear mandate amongst others, to groom a generation of cyber savvy and proficient Law and industry practitioners relevant to this new digital society. Furthermore, and in collaboration with various stakeholders we aim to shape the development of Internet law and policy in Nigeria to meet the evolutionary needs of the current knowledge economy and information age.
