Managed by the State Information Technology Agency (SITA), but funded by the state government, the digital card, which comes with high security features, will be distributed free of charge to all interested persons, upon registration.
Project Coordinator of ‘Kaadi Igbe Ayo’, Mr. Tunde Yadeka, told ICT journalists last Tuesday that the card would serve so many functions relating to egovernance.
According to him, the state government would use it as a platform to have access to state residents in all free services in the areas of health care, education, agriculture, among other social and welfare packages.
He explained that the card would facilitate strategic planning and development, efficient record keeping, and human resources monitoring in the public sector. It will also facilitate anti-corruption solutions in the public sector, enable higher level of qualitative and quantitative service delivery in people oriented sub-sector such as health, education, transportation and agriculture, as well as facilitate the systematic development of databases for efficient security and surveillance purposes.
Giving more details of the card, Yadeka said several pieces of information could be stored in the electronic digital card. Such information, he said include health records of patients, blood group and genotype of individuals, individual bio-data, as well as records of free social services offered by the state government such as fertiliser distribution, immunisation, farm tools distribution, relief materials distribution, free drugs distribution for pregnant women and sick people, among several others.
“The records captured in the card, are readable through electronic card readers,” he said, adding that the records would not only help government get proper information of beneficiaries of its free social and welfare services, but would also help government block leakages in governance.
“The card will check abuse of drugs and fertiliser distribution, by most people who may want to take twice, thereby denying others from getting such free services,” Yadeka said. Although it costs the state government N950 to produce a single card, the cards will be given to Ondo State residents, he disclosed that it would be given free of charge upon registration, and the cards will serve as an identity to all card holders, in getting government services..
Also speaking, Assistant Project Coordinator of ‘Kaadi Igbe Ayo’, Mr. Remmy Yusuf, said the card would serve as an interface between government and residents.
He added that it would help government manage the statistics of all basic features of residents, and to plan and deploy welfare and developmental projects that would meet the needs of all persons resident in the state.
At the inception of Governor Olusegun Mimiko’s administration in Ondo State in 2009, he launched a 12-point programme that will help mobilise the people to harness all natural resources in the state, create and use wealth for the collective fulfillment of individual comfort in the state. One of the 12-point programmes, led to the emergence of a resident card project tagged: ‘Kaadi Igbe Ayo’, designed to facilitate the identification of all residents of the state so as to deliver directly to them, social and welfare packages.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Emma Okonji
Quelle/Source: THISDAY Live, 28.03.2013
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