The Galaxy Backbone Limited, last weekend emerged winner as
Outstanding Government Agency of the Year at the 10th anniversary of
Titans of Tech Awards organized by Technology Africa in Lagos, reports ITRealms.
Galaxy Backbone is a leading ICT infrastructure and
services company wholly owned by the Federal Government.
The Managing Director and chief
executive officer, Galaxy Backbone Ltd, Mr. Yusuf Kazaure, said after receiving
the award that the award won by Galaxy Backbone lent
strength and credibility to the national interest in transparency in
governance driven by information and communications technologies.
Managing Consultant,
Technology Africa, Don Pedro Aganbi said that the current administration
believes in driving governance with electronic platform "and Galaxy
Backbone is blazing the trail in the sector and they have all the support of
the ICT industry. The president's change agenda will be driven by both
e-government and e-governance."
ITRealms reports
that Galaxy emerged winner against other top contending government agencies
including NITDA, NCC, FAAN and NAFDAC.
As said by the organizers, Galaxy is the number one
example of how a public enterprise can run successfully as a private venture
with corporate governance, transparency and efficiency as its hallmark.
In his reaction, Group Head, Corporate Services,
Galaxy Backbone Ltd, Owoicho Igoji, said, “For us this is an external
validation for the values we strive to inculcate in Galaxy especially under the
Galaxy 2.0 initiative”.
ITRealms
also recalls that Galaxy recently at an E-Government Summit in Abuja unveiled
its national e-government strategy referred to as “Whole-of-Government Approach”
which is based on the deployment of a shared technology platform for
e-Government services using its 1-Gov.net platform.
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Pix L-R: Sola Bickesteth, CEO One Network; Kayode Shobajo, Chairman Adplus 360; Juliet Ehumuan, Country Manager Google; Dr. Chris Uwaje and Yusuf Kazaure, MD/CEO Galaxy Backbone Ltd at Titans of Tech Awards in Lagos recently.
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