A total of 81 government agencies have gone online between July and August, Director of the National Information Technology Agency, Prof. Gabriel Ajayi, has said.
Unlike when such agencies registered generic names in the information superhighway, the 81 organisations registered on the country�s top level domain name, the dot ng.
This development followed the resolution of the crisis surrounding the country�s cyberspace identity and the subsequent re-delegation of the dot ng from former person of contact, Mrs. Ibukun�s Odusete, to the National Information Technology Development Agency.
The re-delegation paved the way for NITDA to host an interface website from where organisations could register on the country�s top level domain.
Apart from the 81 public agencies, Ajayi said another 150 private organisations have used the new interfacing website to register on the dot ng domain.
The interest of public sector organisations to establish a presence in the cyberspace arose from the declared objective of the present administration to deliver government service online.
The National Assembly, however, is conspicuously absent from the arms of government and agencies that have gone online.
Ajayi said the Federal Executive Council has also established a committee for the harmonisation of all information technology projects in the country. Both public and private sector organisations are represented in the committee.
At a recent forum to chat a path for the local management of the country top level domain, stakeholders resolved to ensure that the technical hosting of the national resource is transferred to the country before the end of October.
The technical management is currently being undertaken on a voluntary basis by Mr. Randy Bush in the United States.
