The Nigeria Government Enterprise Architecture framework has been designed to drive short, medium, and long-term digital transformation of the economy, the National Information Technology Development Agency has said.
Kashifu Inuwa, Director General of NITDA, said this at the 12th annual conference of Abuja chapter of Information Systems Audit and Control Association.
Inuwa, who delivered a keynote address, ‘Accelerating Digital Transformation: The Nigerian Trends,’ said the NGEA framework was towards a digital transformation of the nation’s economy.
According to him, the framework provides a guide to enable other government parastatals to easily execute digital initiatives and helps reduce the complexity associated with digital transformation and accelerated adoption across the board.
He said, “The framework we designed at NITDA is in line with the digital transformation foundation laid by President Muhammadu Buhari.
“In October 2019, the president renamed and expanded the mandate of our ministry to cover Digital Economy and also unveiled National Digital Economy Policy for digital Nigeria.
“On the same day, the president also directed all Federal Public Institutions to set up a Digital Transformation Technical Working Group which was achieved August 27, where the first set of 100 federal public institutions’ digital transformation working group was inaugurated.”
He added, “This is to consolidate on the achievements recorded under some of our initiatives such as the Nigeria e-Government Master Plan Nigeria e-Government Interoperability Framework and Nigeria Government Enterprise Architecture.
“The framework firstly is to promote one government digital service and to guarantee the autonomy of federal public institutions to make individual decisions around business processes, digital services, and applications.”
According to Inuwa, the framework has seven layers focused on business, service, data, application, information technology infrastructure, security and performance, which centred around people and processes.
He explained further, “Having understood how important digital capabilities are in driving digital transformation, we have embarked on upskilling and reskilling Nigerians with appropriate knowledge and skills which are the necessary building blocks for digital transformation.
“We have trained over 26,000 Nigerians this year alone on different digital skills to help them understand and embrace digital transformation.”
