The Minister of Communications and Digital Economy Dr. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami has commissioned an e-Government Training Center, one brand new Hyundai bus as well as a 260 KVA generator set to provide uninterrupted electricity to the centre.
The Centre, located at the premises of the Public Service Institute of the Nigeria (PSIN), was built and donated to Nigerian government by the Korean government through the Korea International Cooperation Agency (KOICA) for the capacity building of e-government in Nigeria.
Dr. Pantami who performed the commissioning ceremony in Abuja said e-government is all about digital economy and that is why the Ministry and its Parastatals have been mandated to implement e-government in Nigeria and the Federal Executive Council has approved e-government master plan for the country.
According to him, with the successful completion and commissioning of the e-government centre, a standing committee will be inaugurated to manage the centre and ensure that civil servants are trained in batches with the anticipation that by 2022 or 2023 all civil servants in Nigeria would have been fully trained.
The minister disclosed that the ministry has commenced the process of securing another grant from the Korean government for the second phase of the e-government centre in Nigeria.
He called on the Korean Ambassador to Nigeria and Ministry of Budget and National planning to intervene and ensure its success.
Earlier, the Country Director of KOICA, Woochan Chang said KOICA had injected about $8.45m in the project and about $1m to refurbish the centre to serve as excellent training centre for Nigerians.
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