“…First, while ICT has been in existence in contemporary times and has also been a crucial element of economic systems, changes over the last decade have been quite significant in increasing value added across economic sectors through inter alia: diminishing the cost of production, enhancing output, boosting competitiveness, ameliorating public sector management and improving capacities of production (Chadwick, 2005;Sassi & Goaied, 2013;Hong, 2016) as well as boosting innovation (Oliva et al, 2019), knowledge exchange (Singh, Mittal, Sengupta, & Pradhan et al, 2019) and knowledge management (Al Ahbabi, Singh, Balasubramanian & Gaur, 2019) that are relevant in both public sector and private sector performance. ICT's relevance in improving economic development in developing countries is consistent with evidence in SSA, as documented in contemporary economic development literature (Tchamyou, 2017;Abor, Amidu & Issahaku, 2018;Isszhaku, Abu & Nkegbe, 2018;Minkoua Nzie, Bidogeza & Ngum, 2018;Gosavi, 2018;Asongu & Odhiambo, 2019a;Efobi, Tanankem & Asongu, 2018).…”