The Anambra Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Agency, affirms plans are underway to digitize the state legislative processes to make residents have digital access to the laws and other legislative instruments.
Mr Chukwuemeka Agbata, Managing Director, Anambra ICT Agency, revealed this when he visited the Speaker of the State Assembly, Mr Somtochukwu Udeze, in his office on Monday.
Agbata noted that since Gov. Chukwuma Soludo’s administration kick started the ‘Everything Technology and Technology Everywhere’ vision, the ICT agency had taken initiatives to bring other arms of government on board.
On his part, the agency had identified areas of improvement in the online presence of the State House of Assembly.
“We want to see how we can ensure that proceedings of the Assembly are digitized to enable constituents to have a feel of the efforts of their representatives in the House.
“Lagos State House of Assembly has a portal with pages for the legislators, their works, motions and Bills they have sponsored, all captured for easy access by the constituents.
”This is a positive model we can borrow as a forward-looking state. We will also get for our legislators a domain name and email addresses, to ease communication among themselves.
“We want to work with the House to reproduce all the laws and bye-laws of the state in digital formats, so that in the event of any mishap, we will not be losing so much, as they must have been backed up in the cloud,” he said.
Agbata sought the collaboration of the assembly to achieve the projects.
“Gov. Soludo has that vision of a liveable and prosperous smart city and as an agency, we are playing our part effectively but we need every support we can get, “ he added.
In his remarks, Mr Jude Emesim, a Digital Investment Lead, said that the digitization would allow constituents’ inputs in the legislative processes and bridge the gap between the elected members and their constituents.
