{"id":1212,"date":"2025-11-14T15:00:57","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T15:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oriaadvisory.com\/blog\/?p=1212"},"modified":"2026-01-10T09:05:01","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:05:01","slug":"publication-update-icegov-2025-conference-reflections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oriaadvisory.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/14\/publication-update-icegov-2025-conference-reflections\/","title":{"rendered":"Publication Update &amp; ICEGOV 2025 Conference Reflections"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color has-link-color has-medium-font-size wp-elements-1 wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"color:#545a5e\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">I recently presented my paper at <strong>ICEGOV 2025<\/strong> in Abuja, my first time at the conference and ICEGOV&#8217;s first time in West Africa. My paper &#8220;<em>Inclusion by Design or Assumption? Contextualising Nigeria&#8217;s Digital Policy through its Mobile Banking Experience<\/em>&#8221; was shortlisted for <strong>Best Research Paper<\/strong>, which was a lovely surprise. ICEGOV\u2019s mix of researchers, policymakers, and practitioners made it a valuable space for grounded conversations about digital governance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What My Study Found<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">My work examined <strong>how interface design (for example, the design of mobile applications) leads to exclusion among <strong>users<\/strong><\/strong> with <strong>functional low-literacy (FXI)<\/strong> in Nigeria and whether national digital-governance frameworks account for this.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">A few clear patterns emerged:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list has-medium-font-size\">\n<li><strong>Exclusion often happens at the interface<\/strong>, not from lack of access or skills.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Policies such as the CBN\u2019s mobile-money guidelines and the DLGF focus on competencies<\/strong>, but say little about usability or design assumptions that shape real user experience.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Policies focus heavily on &#8220;teaching&#8221; digital literacy in schools, hence excluding adults with functional low literacy.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>This creates a gap between <strong>policy intentions<\/strong> and <strong>everyday interaction realities<\/strong>.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The study highlights the need to <strong>contextualise digital-literacy and interface-governance frameworks<\/strong> <strong>and<\/strong> <strong>policies<\/strong> so they reflect local contexts and the needs of marginalised groups.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">It was encouraging that the topic opened thoughtful conversations at ICEGOV, given interface-level exclusion is rarely centred in governance discussions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:40px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Publication Update<\/strong><\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size wp-block-paragraph\">The paper will appear in the <strong>ICEGOV 2025 Springer LNIC proceedings<\/strong>, and I\u2019ll share the link once it\u2019s available.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:150px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I recently presented my paper at ICEGOV 2025 in Abuja, my first time at the conference and ICEGOV&#8217;s first time in West Africa. My paper &#8220;Inclusion by Design or Assumption? Contextualising Nigeria&#8217;s Digital Policy through its Mobile Banking Experience&#8221; was shortlisted for Best Research Paper, which was a lovely surprise. ICEGOV\u2019s mix of researchers, policymakers,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1215,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,2],"tags":[17,35,15,55],"class_list":["post-1212","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-publications","category-khadijah","tag-digital-literacy","tag-functional-illiteracy","tag-inclusive-design","tag-low-literacy-users"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oriaadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oriaadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oriaadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oriaadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oriaadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1212"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/oriaadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1234,"href":"https:\/\/oriaadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212\/revisions\/1234"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oriaadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1215"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oriaadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oriaadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oriaadvisory.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}