According to him at the end of the provision of the platform, it proceeds to act as facilitator, brand and peer group evaluator to enable all other IT solutions and technology providers, adding that the Agency remained committed to the design and implementation of the eGovernment programmes in Nigeria.
Giving an overview of the mandate of the Strategy, Dr. Agunloye explained that the main objective of the strategy was to create people empowerment through aligning NeGSt’s objectives with the National Economic Empowerment and Development Strategy, NEEDS: New Partnership for Africa ’s Development, NEPAD and Millennium Development Goals, MDG at the local, regional and global levels respectively.
The Board of National eGovernment Strategies was inaugurated on 4 May 2004. “The www.eNigeria.com.ng Portal which has been hosted since May 2005 is still being upgraded until it gets to full-scale. Its design incorporated concepts of Corporate Portal and also Process Portal with productivity tools. The portal is designed to cater for Government’s aspirations, satisfy Citizens’ needs and convenience and at the same time provide adequate returns for Shareholders’ investment.
“The Portal also needs to address additional but somewhat unusual problem which is that of building its own integrated databases. This is because a tour of a total of 26 Ministries, Departments and Agencies, MDAs spanning Federal and State Governments over 18 months starting from October 2004 has brought even more problems to the fore: dearth of good data,sub-standard databases, non compliance with any standards, no reliable database, disjointed operations, etc.
Autor(en)/Author(s): Henry Umoru
Quelle/Source: Vanguard, 08.05.2007
