The Nigeria Computer Society (NCS) has said the harmonisation of the national database is a right and fundamental step towards a functional e-government system.
In a statement on Sunday in Lagos, Prof. Sola Aderounmu, the NCS president, said it would assist in the fight against crime, when agencies draw data from the same database.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) reports that President Muhammadu Buhari recently directed the Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) to harmonise the biometric data.
The statement noted that the directive was imperative, considering the huge cost of biometric exercises.
It said biometric exercises included the cost of personnel, storage of acquired data and cost of making such data available.
The statement also said e-government services would bring together the government, the governed, civil society, professional bodies and other stakeholders.
It recalled that the NCS, at its 2013 general meeting, canvassed that e-government, when properly deployed, would deliver optimisation of service.
The statement said quality service would aid the attainment of Vision 20:20:20.
It stressed the need to evolve the technology and framework for storing, protecting and making available data, while safeguarding the privacy of citizens’ Personal Identifiable Information (PII).
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Quelle/Source: The Nation, 17.08.2015
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