The Federal Government of Nigeria, has said that it is working with the U.S. government and other private firms to train 500,000 public servants on digitisation and Information Technology (IT) to improve service delivery.
Director-General of the Bureau of Public Service, Mr Dasuki Arabi made this known in a chat with journalists in Abuja on Sunday.
According to him, the Federal Government had approved an e-government master plan agenda for digitisation of the processes.
He noted that the government has also issued a circular directing digitisation of all processes.
Part of his statement reads,
“The vouchers and the papers that we used to have in files have now been transferred into data system.
“if that is done, the process and the speed of delivering service are going to be faster, cheaper and easier. Government has issued a circular directing digitisation of all processes.
“We are working with the private sector to build the capacity of the public servants to understand the language. For instance, accountants used to raise vouchers and cheques to pay contractors and salaries, now they are doing that electronically.
“So they need to understand the digitised language, eat the language and speak the language to enable them properly sit and manage the transformation to a digital economy.’’
