Information and Communications Technology (ICT) infrastructure and services company, Galaxy Backbone, has released its e-Government agenda at the recently concluded e-Government summit, organised in Abuja, by the Electronic Payment Providers Association of Nigeria (E-PPAN).
Managing Director/CEO of Galaxy Backbone, Yusuf Kazaure, in a goodwill message at the event, commended E-PPAN, the Financial Services Strategy (FSS 2020) and the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN) and other sponsors for providing a veritable platform designed to engender robust national discourse and engagement on a very important issue such as e-Government.
According to Kazaure who was represented by the Group Head, Customer Operations and Services at Galaxy Backbone, Frank Ugbodaga, “Galaxy Backbone is a service provider to the federal government, and it is in this regard that the company is well positioned to play a major role in the national e-Government agenda."
He stated that Galaxy has adopted a ‘Whole-of-Government Approach’ as its strategy by developing a shared technology platform for e-Government services known as 1-GOV.net.
This approach was vindicated when the company won the United Nations Public Services Award in 2013 for this initiative as a creative and exemplary solution that transformed the chaotic information technology landscape in the Federal Government into a single, coordinated platform for e-government programmes within the space of five years, Kazaure said.
He highlighted three major benefits of the 'Whole-of-Government Approach' to include economies and efficiencies of scale, where government will realise significant cost savings from pooling resources together and avoiding duplication of common services. He also said citizens could benefit from a one-stop interface with interoperable information systems of government agencies.
He further emphasised the benefit of information security and data sovereignty, citing data as the key determinant of relevance in the knowledge economy and the need for the country to generate, host and control its own data at all costs.
To achieve the key objectives of the e-Government agenda, he said Galaxy Backbone is currently developing the National Shared Services Centre (NSSC). The facility, which is already shortlisted for the 2015 World Architecture Award is planned for completion in 2016 and will serve as the federal government’s primary Data Centre and host for the first government owned cloud as well as the Network Operating Centre (NOC) for the fibre optic network linking all Federal Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs).
These components essentially make up the common infrastructure for all e-Government services of the federal government. Within this platform there will also be common services for MDAs – electronic payments, security, big data analytics as well as services oriented data exchange, Kazaure said.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Emma Okonji
Quelle/Source: THISDAY Live, 03.08.2015
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