eGov Foundation, Compliance Professionals Announce Partnership on Technology Platform Deployment

Oluchi Chibuzor

eGov Foundation and Compliance Professionals Plc have announced a historic partnership to improve governance in Nigeria through open digital public infrastructure (DIGIT) technology platform deployment to public sector organisations in Nigeria.
The partnership would facilitate the deployment of eGov Foundation’s DIGIT platform in Nigeria with the ultimate goal of promoting e-governance, ensuring statutory compliance, optimising revenue generation, and improving government performance.

This was disclosed in a statement by eGov, recently, noting that DIGIT was an open, interoperable, free-to-use platform that offers solutions for citizens, first-mile employees, administrators, commercial players and policymakers.

Speaking, the CEO, eGov Foundation, Viraj Tyagi, said, they were excited about the digital transformation possibilities in Nigeria leveraging the DIGIT platform, noting that they would  facilitate this by providing the necessary support, documentation, and knowledge.
He also said that DIGIT uses a building block and shared data registries approach that ensures it can be reused, repurposed and extended to new sectors to solve pressing problems.

According to him, “It is often said that the economic growth of a country is significantly impacted when exposed to indicators of bad governance. However, different indicators influence the degree of impact.

“A lack of regulatory policies and frameworks, government’s ineffectiveness, lack of control on corruption, unaccountability, lack of transparency and compliance with the laws of the country have always been linked to poor economic growth and development. The DIGIT Platform will aid the effective functioning of government bodies and also promote e-governance.”

On her part, Managing Partner, Compliance Professionals Plc, Ifueko Omoigui-Okauru, said Compliance Professionals Plc would drive the transformative and institutional change required by government bodies in adopting the DIGIT Platform for effective e-governance.
She also said the CPP Group was an aggregation of several companies and professionals in various sectors under one umbrella with a common mission to impact the Nigerian and African space positively.

According to her, “It is our belief that this partnership will foster a strong bond between eGov Foundation and Compliance Professionals Plc, and meet the common goal of improving governance in Nigeria.”

She noted that DIGIT had been adopted in 1500 cities and 14000+ villages in India with over 250+ million citizens served.
eGov Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that exists to improve the ease of living for people through ensuring effective service delivery and good governance.