Insurance and pension awareness will receive a boost with the launch by Inspenonline, of electronic forum that would enable regulators, operators, stakeholders and the public interact and proffer solutions to the problems of both sectors.
Editor Inspenonline, Chuks Udo Okonta, said the e-forum which is hoisted on Inspenonline - Nigeria's first insurance and pension online platform, was designed to bridge the gap between the stakeholders in the insurance and pension sectors, adding that the forum will create avenue for discussion of a typical subject on the sectors every week.
He said the need for the forum has become necessary due to several issues that have been left unattended, which affects the growth of the sectors.
He maintained that the contributions which will be drawn, from across the globe, will help enhance the performance of the sectors. He noted that the platform would also enable the public ask questions and get responses from regulators and operators.
Okonta noted that information sharing especially through the social media, will help stem the several problems that affect the sectors, stressing that lack of awareness constitute great challenge to the growth of the industries.
He called on regulators and operators to embrace opporunities to be provided by the forum, stressing that the forum would help bring people who never had the privilege to attend conferences organise by the sectors close to them.
He said: " We want to use the forum to bring insurance and pension regulators, operators, clients and the public together for them to share information that are presently hanging, due to lack of proper channel.
"Research has shown that most conferences organised by the sectors are only attended by few of those who need to be educated. The majority of public who need information about the operations of these sectors are unreached, this, therefore, hinders the objectives of most conferences.
"The social media has made it easy for regulators and operators of businesses, to meeting conveniently and share information that are of mutual concern.
"The sectors' regulators and operators must rise to harness the opportunities that have been created by the social media, which has help reduced the gap in information dissemination.
"The public are in need of information from the operators, but the flow has been one way, in that the operators pass their information through advertorials, press releases, while the public never have proper structure to express their responses.
"This challenge of encoding, decoding and feedback of information is what the forum will address."
Okonta noted that the forum would be of great value to the sectors, as it will also give room for interested foreign participants to share knowledge and information that would help enhance performance.
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