By Chinenye Anuforo
The Nigeria eGovernment Summit 2025 is set to proffer digital solutions that will enhance effective governance through public-private partnerships.
The summit, which is in its seventh edition, has the theme: ‘Public-Private Partnership for Effective eGovernnent Solutions’, and it’s scheduled to hold on August 28 in Lagos.
Organised by DigiServe Networks Services, in partnerships with the Association of Telecoms Companies of Nigeria (ATCON), Federal Inland Revenue Service (FIRS) and the Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), the summit seeks to bring together, government and technology services providers, including the citizens who are the beneficiaries of technology services, to discuss the importance of leveraging emerging technologies that enhance government services delivery to citizens.
Distinguished professionals have been lined up as speakers for the summit to discuss several topics built around the theme.
Convener of Nigeria eGovernment Summit, Lanre Ajayi, while speaking at a press conference in Lagos to announce this year’s summit, said: “Nigerian citizens deserve good governance to better their lives. Government needs to embrace emerging technologies to facilitate effective government service delivery. The summit will promote discussions around eGovernance and proffer solutions to effective governance through collaboration and public-private partnerships.”
Ajayi commended the federal and state governments for the progress recorded so far in leveraging technology in delivering government services to the people, but he however said technology adoption by government was still slow, insisting that more have to be done.
According to him, the objective is to set agenda for the federal and state governments on the adoption of new technologies for service delivery, encourage government at all levels to drive their service delivery with technology, and to propose to governments, solutions and strategies required for effective deployment of eGovernment services, among others.
The summit provides a platform where government officials and experts in various specialisations in ICT can interact, share perspectives and develop a roadmap to mainstreaming ICT in various departments of government.
This year’s summit is hinged on the success of last year’s summit, which attracted over 60 distinguished speakers and several delegates from industry stakeholders, which include government officials from the Lagos State, Nasarawa State, Zamfara State, Oyo State, and Edo State, including National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), Nigerian Communications Commission (NCC), National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), and Galaxy Backbone Limited, among others.