Speaking at the 14th Innovation Africa Digital
(IAD) Summit 2016 which held in Abuja recently, Kazaure said that the
determination of the company under his watch is to attain emerging market
leader on the African continent.
“We are fully conscious of the need to be in the vanguard of
Nigeria’s digital growth especially within the public sector. Over the years,
we have made significant investments in human and technological resources based
on our vision to be the leading enabler of digital inclusion in Africa” he said.
Kazaure told the audience at the summit that harnessing Africa’s
digital growth was a key challenge facing African leaders, both in government
and business, hence, there was the need for high-level dialogue that would draw
attention to the nature of decisions and actions necessary for the digital
transformation of the continent for a better future.
He, therefore, challenged policy makers, regulators, service
providers, solutions providers and ICT experts on the continent to leverage the
huge investments already made in ICTs to innovate and induce organic growth in
Africa.
Kazaure pointed out that Galaxy Backbone Ltd, established in 2006
currently has over 350 Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) connected to
its 1-GOV.Net in over 4,000 office locations nationwide, thus making it the
largest single network ever-developed in the public sector in Africa.
“It is even more noteworthy that Galaxy Backbone’s 1-GOV.NETinitiative
– a common network infrastructure platform - was benchmarked on global best
practices and the company emerged in the 2013 United Nations Public Service
Award as 1st Place Winner for “Promoting Whole-of-Government
Approaches in the Information Age” for its 1-GOV.NET initiative," he said.
Further, he confirmed that the
UNPSA award was a validation of Galaxy’s vision to be the leading enabler of
digital inclusion in Nigeria and on the continent.
