For Nigeria and other African countries to be resilient, innovative and achieve inclusive administration, their governments must embrace digitisation. This was suggested by a report by McKinsey and Partners. In its report, ‘Reopening and Reimagining Africa’, McKinsey, noted that governments would play a key role in fostering an enabling environment for digitisation, including ensuring that the regulatory and legislative environments support digitisation. xHe said governments can step up the provision of digital services and information, and utilise digital tools to collect, manage and use data to inform decision-making. According to him, governments have moved decisively and speedily to respond to the COVID-19 crisis, putting aside ‘red tape’ to break down silos across agencies and encourage data sharing.

Source: The Guardian April 27, 2021 01:30 UTC