Blessing Bature, Abuja
A Professor of Computer Science Hung Park, from Sangmyung University, South Korea, who double as the project manager, Project Leader of the Nigeria eGOVT project has said if Nigeria properly implements the E-Government Master Plan it will be the country leading digital global player.
Prof. Park who said this at the sidelines on Tuesday during a two days workshop on the E-Government Master Plan in Abuja. With the theme "Building Foundations Towards Digital Governance in Nigeria"
He said, Nigeria the oil driven industry should be changed that too much dependence on one part of the economy sector is not really good so the Oil industry structure should be changed into diversity of the industry because that is the key to resolving Nigerias GNI.
He emphasized the importance of economic diversification in the country considering the huge human and natural potentials that Nigeria has to avoid over dependent on one single resource to move the country forwards.
"In South Korea, When we were in the dictatorship period we called it the developmental dictatorship the present part change our industry structure from just agricultural economy to a diversified one by investing in Education, Entertainment among others.
"So I want to encourage Nigeria to do the same because I have also noticed that Nigeria is now heading towards the right direction a good example is the e-government project.
Proff, Park stated, Digital transformation of the e-government Master Plan continues to hold impacts of improving public service efficiency in Nigeria, hence the need for the implementation of the project.
“1.0 E-government plan has already being completed in 2014 but eight years past only one initiative was successfully implemented as the Nigerian government adopts the recommendations which is establishment of Presidential Council for e-government”
He called on Nigerian government to implement e-government 2.0 Master Plan for effective and good governance in Nigeria.
Also, the Director, e-Government Department, Federal Ministry of Communication and Digital Economy, Mr Aremu Ade, recall that, the Federal Ministry of Communications & Digital Economy in collaboration with KOICA had developed and implemented the 1st phase of the Nigeria e-Government Masterplan from 2014 to 2019.
He said, "This has led to the signing of another Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between both parties in 2021 for the 2nd phase of the Masterplan titled "Project for Building Foundation towards Digital Governance in Nigeria (2020-2026)".
"World Economy Long-Term Prespect. Nig will be the 6 and 7 by 2050. The e-Government master plan is a comprehensive strategy, which would be used by the government in re-engineering the e government agenda of the Country to direct the holistic and citizen centric deployment of ICT in governance in order to improve public services and democratic processes as well as strengthen support to public policy, he said.
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