Digital Economy: FG to Adopt 1Gov Cloud Platform by 2026

The Federal Government of Nigeria has concluded plans for the adoption of 1Gov cloud enterprise content management system (ECMS) platform by 2026, which is a migration from the laser fish platform, in furtherance of its digitalisation drive.

The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation (HoCSF), Mrs Esther Walson-Jack made this known at a recent press briefing in Abuja.

According to her, the digitalisation effort of the federal government has yielded remarkable results, having achieved 59,344 official government emails. She therefore urged Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of government to adopt the platform going forward.

“The MDAs that have not yet begun their ECM implementation should adopt this platform going forward. Those that are already running an enterprise content management system on a different platform will continue until their migration which is planned for 2026. Our decision to migrate from laser fish to the 1Gov cloud ECMS is based on four strategic reasons that are both policy driven and operationally essential for the future of the Nigerian public service,” she said.

Speaking earlier, the Managing Director, Galaxy Backbone, Dr. Ibrahim Adeyanju, who was represented by the Executive Director of Finance, Mohammed Ibrahim, said government’s digitalisation drive was already gaining momentum, due to a presidential directive to modernise the civil service.