ITRealms:
Electronic Payment Providers Association of Nigeria (E-PPAN) has entered into partnership with the Financial System Strategy 2020 (FSS 2020) to host Africa’s biggest e-Government Summit on July 7 and 8, in Abuja, reports ITRealms.
E-PPAN and the FSS 2020 secretariat,
ITRealms gathered, are now set to make this year’s event the biggest E-government
summit in Africa. The partnership will allow the summit enjoy a robust and rich
program schedule which will cover a variety of issues attracting high level of
participations from the private sector, government and international audience.
The summit will run concurrent
sector specific workshop sessions. These sessions will address issues such as
how MSME can be used for employment generation using ICT platforms; the use of
electronic channels to complement the growth enhancement scheme in the Agricultural
sector; the payment system in respect of the cashless Nigeria initiative and
the PSV 2020.
Other sectors to be covered by the
summit include pension, insurance and mortgage. The interconnection of these
sectors with ICT will drive a generation of e-services in the public sector. In
addition, the E-government summit will provide the platform to create awareness
on various achievements of the FSS 2020 and celebrate other big strides in the
private and public sector in the area of ICT, ITRealms
learnt.
The conference will allow
exhibitions from participating organizations to showcase arrays of products and
services, which will drive a citizen-centric e-services that is centred on
improving efficiency in government service delivery, and foster greater
collaboration between the private and public sector for sustainable development
and economic growth.
ITRealms learnt that the Financial System Strategy (FSS 2020) is an
initiative of the Federal Government of Nigeria aimed at developing a coherent
and internally consistent blueprint to develop Nigeria’s financial system to
help achieve its vision to become a major international financial centre and
one of the top 20 largest economies in the world by the year 2020.
Criacus Nnaji/GEE
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