Anambra ICT Agency activates 25 WiFi locations as part of Soludo’s digitization programme

By Vincent Ujumadu

The Anambra State ICT Agency has acceptable up 25 unrecorded WiFi sites crossed the state, arsenic portion of the implementation of Governor Chukwuma Soludo’s digitization programme.

Managing Director of the Agency, Fred Agbata, portion addressing members of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, NUJ, successful Awka, that the sites are located successful schools, lodges, nationalist spaces, and authorities institutions.

The hotspots, helium explained, are not conscionable infrastructure,  adding that they are lifelines which democratize net entree for students, traders, civilian servants, and mundane Anambra people, thereby bridging accusation divides and fostering inclusion.

Going down representation lane, helium recalled that the occurrence of the programme began successful 2022 erstwhile Governor Soludo took the bold determination to waive the Right of Way (RoW) charges for broadband infrastructure.

“The Agency was established with a wide and compelling mandate to thrust integer translation successful Anambra State and with the enactment of the governor, the operations person been moving smoothly.

“Our relation is to design, coordinate, and instrumentality exertion initiatives that marque governance much efficient, inclusive, transparent, and people-centred.

“We beryllium to guarantee that “Everything Technology, Technology Everywhere” is not conscionable a slogan, but a lived world wherever authorities processes are digitized, citizens tin entree services seamlessly, and exertion becomes the existent backbone of governance.

“In fact, our ngo is to physique a digitally transformed Anambra to enactment the transportation of everything exertion and exertion everyplace successful the state”, helium added.

Agbata said further: “At first, it seemed similar a specified argumentation decision, but successful reality, it was the bedrock of Anambra’s integer revolution. By removing the barriers that had agelong stifled broadband expansion, Governor Soludo sent a almighty message, which is that Anambra is unfastened for integer business.

“The governor’s determination unlocked opportunities for fibre-to-home deployment, infrastructure expansion, arsenic good arsenic faster and much reliable net crossed communities.

“It besides created an enabling situation wherever innovators, telecom operators, and entrepreneurs tin thrive. Simply put, it unlocked what had been locked and today, the results are visible.”

He said that beyond connectivity, the ICT Agency is reshaping governance itself, adding that the authorities Executive Council proceedings, which utilized to beryllium paper-based, has present been digitized. This, helium stated, has besides cascaded into MDAs, thereby making civilian work operations faster and smarter.

He said:  “From little than 300 functional computers successful 2022, the authorities has grown to implicit 5,000 devices distributed crossed MDAs, LG Heads of Departments, including Ministries of Justice, Special Duties, the Civil Service Commission, and the Disability Rights Commission. Teachers and principals besides received 2,000 laptops successful 2024, with much to travel nether the Smart School Project.

While urging the media to spouse with the Agency, Agbata said the communicative of Anambra’s integer translation is inactive unfolding, adjacent arsenic helium noted that due instauration has been laid.

“From the quiet, yet bold RoW waiver, to the disposable footprint of Solution WiFi, to the digitization of governance, what we are gathering nether Governor Soludo is simply a aboriginal wherever exertion works for the people.

“It is astir creating a smart, liveable, and prosperous megacity, 1 that equips its youth, empowers its workers, strengthens its institutions, and ensures that nary 1 is near behind”, helium concluded.

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