IfG.CC -
Institute for eGovernment

Nigeria has recorded yet another milestone with the recent establishment of the CSCS Digital Centre.

According to the Managing Director of Central Securities Clearing System (CSCS) Limited Mr. Onyewuchi Asinobi, the CSCS Digital Centre is set to revolutionize the way Business Organizations and Government Institutions keep, store and retrieve their prized documents and data in Nigeria.

The CSCS Digital Centre is modeled after reputable Digital Storage and Retrieval banks in Europe and America. It provides an off-site, online solution for the organizations to convert their paper documents into secure electronic format, Digital Document Storage with seamless retrieval utilizing robust web solution, implementing disaster recovery policy and records management.

The national egovernment, an initiative of the National eGovernment Strategies Limited, is on course and progressing, executive vice chairman of the company, Dr. Olu Agunloye, has said.

Agunloye's assurances came against the backdrop of a major internal rift within the organisation.

Attaining efficiency and effectiveness of the public administration system has become a major challenge of many governments around the world. In meeting this challenge, many are transforming their public administration system through the introduction of modern management concepts and at the same time modernizing administrative practices. Within this purview, the transformation agenda is concentrated on three key thrust: Finance, access and governance. Several countries including Nigeria have adopted the Finance aspect through the Structural Adjustment mechanism. This is the International Monetary Fund's recipe for economic growth and deficit reduction, which seeks to promote job creation by creating low inflation, well managed and market driven economy.

President Olusegun's Obasanjo’s National eGovt initiative across the federal, states and local government areas of the country received a boost in Lagos Monday.

The occasion was the signing of alliance partnership agreement between National eGovernment Strategies Ltd (NeGSt) and O & G Eftpos Pty of Australia on eRevenue solutions for states and local governments.

NeGSt which was inaugurated March 8, 2004, as a public-private partnership between the Federal Government and the Organised Private Sector (OPS) took off with a clear vision to address the internally generated revenue (IGR) problems of the states and local governments in the country.