The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has unveiled the second phase of the Nigerian e-Government Master Plan, aimed at ensuring seamless and inclusive access to digital services to enhance transparency in government processes.
The Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa made this known at the handing over of deliverables to CEOs of NITDA, National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Nigerian Immigration Service (NIS) and the Nigerian Customs Service (NCS) on Thursday which was held at the e-Government Training Centre, Kubwa, Abuja.
Digital TimesNG understands that the event symbolises the implementation of the first phase of the Nigerian e-Government master plan, which was sponsored by the joint implementer, the Korean International Cooperation Agency (KOICA).
Represented by Mr. Oladejo Olawumi, Director, IT Infrastructure Solutions at NITDA, the NITDA DG said that the event aimed to strengthen the progress made so far and properly position the general government enterprise architecture as a cornerstone of building the foundation for digital governance in Nigeria.
The DG said under the Strategic Roadmap and Action Plan, which was named SRAP 2.0, the pillar of infrastructure in the project was committed to ensuring seamless and inclusive access to digital services.
“The enterprise architecture is a disciplined way of organising enterprise resources, which includes business processes, data, information, tech, finance, ETC, to provide the capabilities required to consistently achieve outcomes of the organisation’s functions and mandates.
“It specifies the principles, practices, standards, and policies that guide the way capabilities enable IT to evolve and continue to deliver results even under continuous changes in political, administrative, and economic conditions.
“It is, therefore, in line with this administration’s commitment to ensuring the implementation of sustainable initiatives and programmes that will stimulate and rejuvenate the economy that the Federal Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy’s strategic plan of driving towards a resilient, inclusive and prosperous Digital Nigeria by utilising ICT to drive transparency in government as well as improve the quality and cost-effectiveness of public service delivery in Nigeria,” Inuwa explained.
He also noted that NITDA, in line with its mandate had developed the Nigerian Government Enterprise Architecture as part of the implementation of the first phase of the Nigerian e-government master plan.
“The framework launched in March 2019 was developed as an overarching document to guide the effective and efficient adoption and implementation of IT projects in government so that expectations and outcomes of IT projects can be achieved in the short and long term,” he added.
He asserted that the Nigerian Government Enterprise Architecture is a critical factor in the implementation of the e-government-related regulatory instruments and explained that the Nigerian e-government interoperability framework was designed to enable interoperability between all the services provided by the government.
He stated that the Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) as it were, is key to the present administration’s drive towards making government services to be integrated among themselves.
Mr. Songil Son, the Korean International Corporation Agency’s (KOICA’s) country Director, stated that ‘the project has four components, and the Enterprise Architecture is one of the components.
“NITDA is coordinating the whole process and so much progress has been made so far by properly positioning the overall government enterprises architecture as a cornerstone of building the foundation for digital governance in Nigeria,” he said.
Earlier, representatives of Nigeria Customs Service, and Nigeria Immigration Service took turns to express their optimism that the values outlined in the guide would ease the perfection of digital governance and foster inclusiveness, transparency and progress in the country.
They gave assurances that the services would be committed to leveraging the framework of the project as a catalyst for achieving Nigeria’s strategic aspirations.
