The National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), has
unveiled the second phase of the Nigerian e-Government Master Plan,
towards ensuring a seamless and inclusive access to digital services with the
aim of enhancing transparency in government processes.
The Director General, National Information Technology Development Agency
(NITDA), Kashifu Inuwa CCIE 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.
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).
Inuwa, who was represented by Mr Oladejo Olawumi, Director I T
Infrastructure Solutions in the agency, said that the aim of the event was 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 Road map and Action Plan, which was
named SRAP 2.0, the pillar of infrastructure in the project was committed to
ensure 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 the IT to evolve over time 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.
“The implementation has led to the development of programmes and
initiatives which include the clearing of many IT projects, improvement of
the national IT clearance policy drive, IT systems anddigital services assessment of 200 federal and public institutions, the Nigerian Government
Enterprise Architecture portal, establishment of digital transformation technical working group DTTWG in 100 federal and public institutions, training of 442 members of the DTTWG and engagement of 10 FPIs under digital transformation performance and readiness,” he added.
He asserted that the Nigerian Government Enterprise Architecture is a
critical factor in the implementation of the following e-government related
regulatory instruments.
The Director General further explained that the Nigerian e-government
interoperability framework was designed to enable interoperability between
all the services provided by the government.
Stressing 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.
He listed the national cloud computing policy and strategy; business process
management guidelines,electronic document management system guidelines
of FPIs, government digital service framework and digital government
transformation performance assessment tool kit, among other core elements
of the project.
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’.
Earlier, representatives of Nigeria Customs Service, 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 the Nigeria’s
strategic aspirations.
