In a move bid to fully transit into e-governance,
the federal government has revealed that it will partner Information and
Communications Technology (ICT) service provider, Galaxy Backbone Limited, to
compile and protect data where all the Ministries, Departments and Agencies,
(MDAs) can key into and protect government's data.
Secretary to the Government of the Federation (SGF),
Mr. Boss Mustapha, disclosed this after
meeting with the Managing Director of
the Galaxy Backbone Limited, Prof. Muhammad Bello, who paid him a courtesy
visit in his office.
The SGF said Galaxy Backbone was created to ensure the
protection of server where government's sensitive information is stored.
Mustapha said even though network service providers like Globacom,
MTN and Airtel had proven track record in data storage, government decided to establish Galaxy
Backbone to champion the purpose of storing government information in one
server.
He said when the country’s entire governance mechanism is
fully transited into e-governance, a lot of human contact and paper elements
will be phased out, adding this was expedient as corruption had been largely
induced due to too much human contact.
“It is the desire of President Muhammadu Buhari that
before the expiration of his tenure, we will transit fully to e-governance, and
Galaxy Backbone will pay a major role in the provision of the platform. We want
to ease the process of doing business,” the SGF added.
In his response, the MD of Galaxy Backbone, while
appreciating President Buhari for his appointment, harped on the need to
harness the operations of the MDAs.
He added that before the establishment of Galaxy
Backbone, the MDAs were operating in silos, with most of their data hosted from
outside the country. This, according to him, was very wrong security wise.
“Galaxy Backbone is going to provide network services,
network platforms as well as the necessary hardware and storage of important
government data,” Abubakar said.
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