FG Inaugurates Committee to Drive Digital Identity
The federal government has inaugurated a steering committeemmittee for the Nigeria Digital Identity for Development Ecosystem Project to fast-track the implementation of the strategic roadmap for accelerating digital identity development for the country.
Inaugurating the committee, the Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Mr. Boss Mustapha, who is also the chairman of the team, said digital identification remained central and critical to realising the objective of the government’s Economic and Recovery Growth Plan (ERGP).
He said the strategic roadmap, approved by the Federal Executive Council (FEC) on September 12, 2018, “is a culmination of the enormous collective efforts and contributions of so many institutions and stakeholders, which began in the year 2015 when this government took a decision to forge a credible and cost-effective pathway for identification management.”
According to him, to accelerate the implementation of the strategic roadmap, therefore, government considered and adopted a threetiered institutional arrangement comprising of a Steering Committee, a Strategic Unit, an Implementation Unit situated in the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), and with responsibilities for providing overall governance and coordination, ecosystem partners’ coordination and communication and day-to-day project implementation respectively.
Mustapha further said: “The Project Steering Committee was established as the highest body with the responsibility of providing policy, institutional and operational guidance towards delivering on the identification vision and promise of the Strategic Roadmap.”