The National Coordinator, Basic Registry and Information System in Nigeria (BRISIN), Dr Anthony Uwa, says implementation of the programme will attract huge investment to Nigeria’s economy.
Uwa said in Abuja that the project had wide spectrum of actions and Public-Private Partnership (PPP) offshoots that would engender high-profile investments.
BRISIN is an integrated system for the collection, storage and distribution of information to support the management of the economy.
The project was initiated by the President Olusegun Obasanjo administration, while the Goodluck Jonathan’s administration inaugurated a Technical Committee for its implementation.
BRISIN is targeted at tapping into all aspects of the nation’s economy and bringing developmental and economic growth in the country through the use of data collection on people and other relevant information.
Data received will be used to plan for the management of the nation’s resources.
Uwa said that the benefit of BRISIN had no limit, both to the government and citizens.
Uwa, also Managing Director of Dermo Impex Limited, the service provider of BRISIN, said the project would build on five focal data points in the country that would guarantee data governance.
He listed the points as demographic data, social data which include disability, security data and economic data as well as labour and employment data.
The coordinator assured that his team would deliver on the benefits of the project.
According to him, BRISIN also provides a holistic way of fighting corruption, insecurity and unemployment.
Uwa said the project would fight social vices because it captured full demographic information of all inhabitants in a central pool right from the ward to federal levels.
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