Tinubu has Tasked N'Assembly on Public Service Automation, Says Lawmaker

President Bola Tinubu, has tasked the National Assembly on the automation of the nation’s public service, including the parliament.

Chairman, House Committee on Information Communication Technology (ICT) and Cybersecurity, Hon. Stanley Olajide, made the disclosure at the global data privacy day organised by the National Data Protection Commission (NDPC), yesterday, in Abuja to commence the third National Data Privacy Week.

Olajide said, the president had given the lawmakers the mandate to transform the public service with technology.

"Now that President Bola Tinubu is giving us the mandate to transform public service with technology, it means a lot more of the things we do in public service will be digitalised, a lot of the services that citizens consume in the coming months, years will also be digitalised.

"There may be dangers as well that as we collate data and share data, there is need for us as government agencies we can protect the data appropriately and NDPC will be able to provide that role while Galaxy Backbone (GBB) will help manage the data exchange system and ensure that the exchange system follow the guidelines set out by NDPC," he said

The Minister of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Bosun Tijani, urged both public and private sector players to protect citizens' personal data.

"There is literally nothing we do without technology. A lot of gadgets we use today are interconnected which means the data we are producing daily must be protected and the people producing it must be enlightened, but I think most importantly is the role of companies.

"As we build new digital products, it is important we ensure those products don’t collate data and process the data in a way that does not compromise people’s privacy because it is extremely important," the minister said.