The Federal Government under President Muhammadu Buhari has
applauded the roles of Galaxy Backbone Ltd in the digitization of the public
sector in the country for a digitally inclusive society, reports ITRealms.
The Minister of Communications, Barr. Adebayo Shittu gave
this indication at the 14th Innovation Africa Digital Summit 2016 which held in
Abuja, recently, saying that the company has the mandate to build and operate a
nationwide broadband network that provides IP-based connectivity services to
all Federal Government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) and
institutions.
Galaxy Backbone, he said, focuses on providing ICT
infrastructure, applications and services to all Federal Government institutions
which includes but not limited to managing Government Data Centers and
databases, Directory Services, National Information Repositories, IP-telephony
and other solutions/services delivered on the shared platform.
He thanked President Muhammadu Buhari for actively
supporting the Ministry of Communications and Galaxy Backbone Ltd who partnered
with Extensia Ltd Uk to host the Innovation Africa Digital Summit 2016 in Abuja
for the first time.
Also, he said Nigeria’s hosting of the summit at this time
was most significant due to the fact that the present government in Nigeria was
easily the first government since the country’s independence to win election by
leveraging the benefits of the ICT, social media in particular.
He concluded that the time has now come for the government
and Nigerians “to fully embrace ICT to enhance our lives, to enhance
transparency and good governance if we really are to fulfil the “Change”
mandate that Nigerians voted President Muhammadu Buhari to bring about.”
Chuks Egbuna/GEE
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