eGov Foundation, Compliance Professionals Set to Enhance Governance in Nigeria

Emma Okonji

The eGov Foundation and Compliance Professionals Plc have partnered to improve governance in Nigeria through open digital public infrastructure deployments.

eGov Foundation is a not-for-profit organisation that improves the ease of living for people through ensuring effective service delivery and good governance, while 

Compliance Professionals Plc (CPP Limited) is a subsidiary of Compliance Professionals Plc Group (CPP Group) that helps individuals, organisations and states achieve peak performance while complying with local and international laws and regulations.

The partnership is expected to facilitate the deployment of eGov Foundation’s DIGIT platform in Nigeria with the goal of promoting e-governance, ensuring statutory compliance, optimising revenue generation, and improving government performance. 

DIGIT is an open, interoperable, free-to-use platform that offers solutions for citizens, first-mile employees, administrators, commercial players and policymakers. 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. DIGIT has been adopted in 1500 cities and over 14000 villages in India with over 250 million citizens served. 

CEO, eGov Foundation, Viraj Tyagi, said: “We are excited about the digital transformation possibilities in Nigeria leveraging the DIGIT platform. We will facilitate this by providing the necessary support, documentation, and knowledge.”

Managing Partner, Compliance Professionals, Ifueko Omoigui Okauru, said: “Compliance Professionals Plc will drive the transformative and institutional change required by government bodies in adopting DIGIT Platform for effective e-governance. 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, Okauru further said.  

“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.”