TECHDIGEST – The Bureau of Public Service Reforms (BPSR) says it is partnering with the U.S. government to train 500,000 public servants on digitization and Information Technology (IT) to improve service delivery.

Director-General of the BPSR, Dasuki Arabi, disclosed this when he featured at the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) forum in Abuja on Sunday.

Arabi said that the bureau was working with the U.S. government and other key private-sector agencies to ensure the training of public servants on digitisation and use of IT among others.

He said that the Federal Government had approved an e-government master plan agenda for digitisation of the processes and provision of the hardware connectivity that civil servants needed to work with.

” If that is done, the process and the speed of delivering service are going to be faster, cheaper, and easier. The 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.

“The vouchers and the papers that we used to have in files have now been transferred into data system.

“So they need to understand the digitized language, eat the language and speak the language to enable them properly sit and manage the transformation to a digital economy’’, Arabi added.

He said that the aspiration of the reforms was for the Nigerian public service to be among the first 20 in the world by the year 2025.

He said that by the year 2030, the Nigerian public service should be paperless and fully digitized.

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TECHDIGEST – Nigerian social enterprise, STEM METS Resources Limited, has partnered with A.G Leventis to train students on Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) Robotics in Lagos.

The gesture is a long-term commitment of the sponsors to educate, empower and elevate young minds while ensuring accountability through measurable outputs.

Chief Executive Officer of STEM METS, Jadesola Adedeji, explained that the training was inspired by the growth and advancement in technology that is presently shaping the prosperity of nations.

“Now more than ever, there is a need for Nigeria and Africa to expand the capacity and diversity of the STEM workforce pipeline to equip the younger generation with requisite skills for jobs of the future.

“Also, with the pandemic outbreak in 2020, a lot has changed in the workforce. The resolve to work and learn remotely introduced global cross-functional teams.

“This has reinforced the need to educate the next generation to help them compete on a leveled playing field against their international contemporaries in the global job market.”

She stated further that the wide acceptability of technology and its influence on the economy of nations has made STEM education imperative for all.

“Exposing these young minds to it at an early age is a guaranteed way to build a generation of innovators and thinkers who will sustain and strengthen the evolving position of Nigeria and Africa at large,” Adedeji maintained.

Also commenting, Group Managing Director of A. G Leventis, Ms. Seun Oni said, “The future is digital, and we believe that strategic partnerships such as this will provide a conducive learning environment around STEM and ensure a ready pipeline of skills for young minds.

Through various training and workshops, we remain committed to supporting the educational journey of children in our host community and preparing young champs for the future of work in the global space.”

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