LASG To Upgrade Its ICT Usage

Lagos State Commissioner for Science and Technology, Mr. Adebiyi Mabadeje, has said the present administration intends to network into cloud computing, a general term for anything that involves delivering hosted services over the internet, in the shortest possible time.

The commissioner stated this while receiving a team of 24 Defence Attachés from 16 countries, who are on a visit to Lagos State to examine its working structure, and dynamics that had distinguished the state from the rest of the country.

Mabadeje explained that the Ministry, in its six years of existence, had used ICT as a benchmark in driving the economy of the state, adding that there had been great innovations in all the major sectors of the state to attract investors to do business and invest in the state.

He noted that the state government had also tapped into the education sector by building into the curriculum of all schools right from the primary up to the tertiary institutions the development and teaching of Science and Technology courses.

According to him “the Resident Registration project of the state is already ahead of that of the Federal Government and it will span a period of three years in order to help the state government plan towards economic growth in view of the rapid growth in the population of the state.“

The commissioner also noted that the state is presently planning to set up a Forensic Laboratory which will be modeled in line with the standard of that of Federal Bureau Of investigation (FBI) in the United States of America.

However, Mabadeje disclosed that the state is not carrying out these developmental projects alone, but in conjunction with experienced and professional consultants.

Responding, Brig. General Lincoln Ogunlewe, leader of the delegation, expressed his satisfaction with the rate at which the state is advancing technologically, saying that he was impressed by what he had seen so far.

The team which is scheduled to spend four days in the country had earlier paid a courtesy call on the Governor, Mr. Babatunde Raji Fashola (SAN), before visiting the Ministry of Works and Infrastructure and the Ministry of Science and Technology where the Commissioner enlightened them on how technology had been one of the major tools used in driving the economy of the state.