The Director-General of the National Information Technology Development
Agency (NITDA), Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, has said that smart cities
must thrive to be innovative and sustainable, reports ITRealms.
Pantami disclosed this to ITRealms at the Smart Cities summit in
Abuja on Wednesday during a session on ‘Smart Technologies and Infrastructure:
Communications Technologies, Platforms and IOT Aplications for Smart Cities.”
“We should be innovative about it and ensure
implementations are sustainable,” he declared.
He is convinced that commitment to the development of Smart Cities
in Nigeria, will encourage the rapid advances in Internet of Things (IoTs)
technologies, platforms, tools and other related technologies, inclusive of
mobile and cloud technologies, capable of developing the technological
landscape of nation and making lives livable for the people.
The focus, he said, should be on short and long terms
plans for building green field cities as well as rebuilding or retrofitting
existing cities to be smart, future ready and sustainable. We need to be
conscious of climate change. There is need to build a sustainable business
model, our own architecture for smart initiatives and ensure the right
infrastructure are available.
Pantami pointed out that infrastructure such as broadband,
5G, electricity, smart devices and agents, smart urban spaces, web-based applications,
mobile technologies and e-services as well as open government data issues are
crucial to achieving sustainable smart cities.
“You may recall that The Nigeria Smart City Initiative (NSCI)
was created and established in February 2016 by the National Information
Technology Development Agency (NITDA) to reflect the agency’s then vision of championing
e-governance in Nigeria,” he said, stressing that NITDA did this with the aim
of providing the enabling environment and capacity for local governments and
private enterprises to improve the quality of city environment and lives of the
people.
NSCI, he said, has some key principles and strategies:
Public Private Partnership (PPP) driven and Internet of Things (IoT) platforms,
which encouraged tools and solutions to be designed with scalability in mind
with a view to enable replicability and measurability.
“The programme is also tied to the agency’s collaborations
with the National Information Agency (NIA) of South Korea and the World
e-Government Organization of Cities and Local Government (WeGO),” he said.
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