The Nationwide Info Know-how Growth Company is pushing for stronger inter-agency collaboration to enhance transparency and effectivity in public sector IT tasks.
In a current spherical of visits, NITDA’s Director Common, Kashifu Abdullahi, engaged the Accountant Common of the Federation, the Workplace of the Auditor Common, and the Bureau of Public Procurement.
The purpose is to completely faucet into the huge income potential of IT undertaking clearance throughout ministries, departments, and businesses.
Abdullahi harassed that the success of President Bola Ahmed Tinubu’s Renewed Hope Agenda on digital transformation relies upon closely on joint efforts.
“And we have to discover how we are able to strengthen our partnerships and collaborations consistent with the President’s agenda,” he mentioned.
He identified that over half of presidency IT tasks collapse resulting from poor planning and misplaced priorities.
“56 p.c of IT tasks did not ship on what was promised as a result of we go for the newest know-how, and failure to design earlier than constructing the know-how and lack of consideration for the enterprise worth proposition we are attempting to ship with the tasks,” he acknowledged.
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Abdullahi warned that fragmented approaches will proceed to hinder digital service supply if businesses fail to coordinate.
“We’re constructing a digitised authorities service, and the federal government is one. We have to work collectively, work harmoniously, the identical manner an IT system works to ship these providers. For us to attain this, we should be extra intentional in the way in which we design and implement. And if we proceed to design and implement in silos, they’ll by no means work collectively.”
In his response, BPP Director Common, Adebowale Adedokun, backed the transfer, calling for a whole overhaul of how IT tasks are proposed and permitted.
“It’s disheartening that organisations misuse IT tasks to syphon public funds sources that might in any other case be channelled in direction of impactful initiatives that may remodel the nation.”
He mentioned the introduction of clear, enforceable pointers is lengthy overdue.
“However with this new guideline our choice ought to pave the way in which for the event of the IT sector of the nation.”
