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The caput to the authorities of the federation (SGF), Senator George Akume, has made a lawsuit for secure, scalable inclusive information ecosystem to beryllium prioritised successful Nigeria.
He made the telephone astatine the PIQL Nigeria Public Sector Breakfast meeting, which was held connected Tuesday successful Abuja and focused connected “Building Nigeria’s Future: Data Preservation and Digital Economy.”
Senator Akume, represented by the acting director, Economic, Monitoring and Multilateral Research successful the Office of the Secretary to the Government of the Federation (OSGF), commended the concern betwixt PIQL and the National Archives, saying it laid the instauration for a secure, accessible and future-proof nationalist information repository.
“It aligns seamlessly with the nationalist nonsubjective of enhancing authorities ratio done digitisation,” helium stated.
In her keynote address, the manager of National Archives of Nigeria, Mrs Evelyn Odigboh, said the enactment is the guardian of our culture, our administrative records and the grounds of our shared travel arsenic a people.
“These records are not relics of the past, they are surviving resources for governance, justice, research, innovation and accountability. A federation without archives is similar a idiosyncratic without representation – incapable to illustration a wide way to the future. This is wherefore information preservation is not a luxury; it is simply a necessity.
“Today, however, we unrecorded successful the integer age, wherever the challenges and opportunities of preservation are greater than ever. Records are nary longer lone insubstantial successful boxes; they are emails, integer photographs, databases, societal media content, and authorities e-services.
“If we neglect to sphere these properly, we hazard creating what immoderate person called ‘a integer achromatic hole’ an epoch successful which aboriginal procreation volition look backmost and find small grounds of who we were, however we lived and however we governed.
“But if we win successful preserving and protecting these integer assets, we volition equip Nigeria with the earthy worldly it needs for the integer economy.
The peculiar impermanent and director-general of National Council for Arts and Culture, Nze Obi Asika, successful an interrogation with journalists, welcomed the meeting, saying the preservation and absorption of Nigeria’s practice and civilization should beryllium a priority.
He noted the relation of exertion successful the preservation of nationalist heritage.
“We acceptable up thing called the Council for Creative Technology Futures due to the fact that we are very, precise engaged successful technology. And exertion is already what is animating everything anyway, nary substance what assemblage you’re in.
Earlier, the president of PIQL, Nze Keazor, said the engagement with elder nationalist work stakeholders was truly astir discussing the full situation of information preservation, information management, information integrity and its deployment.
“Nigeria’s purpose of achieving a trillion dollar system by 2030 is truly astir tools and solutions towards nationalist improvement and to the grade that information is an important portion of that process,” helium said.
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