“…To survive the tremors of Covid19, businesses people have to show agility in improving the inclusiveness of their business models and operations, like adopting online distribution and robotic uses in delivering products or services to customers and using online payment for survival purposes (Mende et al, 2019;Saputra et al, 2022). Adopting innovative digital business models is essential for empowering supply chains to reach customers easily by doing away with intermediaries and going for price transparency and cutting down marketing costs by investing in technological infrastructure as technology is now essential for business continuity and resilience (Kronblad & Pregmark, 2021)., Likewise, people can opt for simple technologies and use platforms like social media, mobile devices and computers to enable interactions with customers in the digital environment (Yadav & Pavlou, 2020) as well as partner with other actors who are experts in digital technology to scale-up digital skills like information and communications technology (ICT) skill, data privacy and security management, ability to resolve customers' problems remotely, communicating by electronic means and handling automated system to monitor and control customers actions as well as digital identity (Jisc, 2019;Nasiri et al, 2020) and machine learning to improve service delivery (Hoffman & Novak, 2018).…”