The state government in its effort to improve public service
delivery and transparency in governance recently innovated the Eko360 project,
a technology-driven data collection system.
The Project which attracted support from the Bill and
Melinda Gates Foundation engaged the Data Science Nigeria (DSN).
The charge was made at the weekend during a two-day workshop
for Data Managers in the Health sectors, a synergy with Lagos Bureau of
Statistics on the use of Eko360 app data collection, organised by the State
Ministry of Economic Planning and Budget at the Protea Hotel, Central Business
District, Ikeja.
The workshop, which also engaged Statisticians/Statistical
Officer cadres, Education data managers, would also extend to other related
offices in Ministries, Departments, Agencies (MDAs).
According to the Economic Planning and Budget Commissioner,
Mr. Sam Egube, the workspace with the health data managers is to help keep up
with the latest trend in medical methods, protocols, terminologies and
specifications for the collection, exchange, storage and retrieval of
information related with health care applications.
Egube said, “This engagement is meant to harness a “Data
Standard”.
“In the context of health care, the term data standards
encompasses methods, protocols, terminologies, and specifications for the
collection, exchange, storage, and retrieval of information associated with
health care applications, including medical records, medications, radiological
images, payments and reimbursement, medical infrastructural devices and
monitoring systems, and administrative processes.
“Lagos State government in its effort to ensure public
service improvement, efficiency in governance, transparency, innovation and
economic value addition had adopted Open Data Initiative as a support to its
open governance framework.
“This is clear in the implementation of two major projects;
the first being the Digital Cabinet Project which is meant to provide an open
view of evaluation of government projects and programmes in government,
classified by the six pillars of the THEMES Agenda.
“The second, which is a feeder of the first is the Lagos
Bureau of Statistics driven Eko360 Open Data Project being supported by the
Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation who had engaged our technical partners, the
Data Science Nigeria (DSN).”
In her remarks, the Permanent Secretary, Ministry of
Economic Planning and Budget represented by the Assistant Director
(Statistics), Mrs. Pemede Senami Bolanle, said the State was relying on the
expertise of the data managers in building support and consensus required for
delivering on the reform that has become necessary for Data Management System
in the face of the current global circumstances, where Circular Economy is one
of the main focus for survival.
The Director, Policy, Planning, Research and Statistics,
Ministry of Education, Dr. Olufunmi Oyetola said, the demonstration for the
usage of the Eko360 data collection app as a complementary tool to achieve
accurate and timely submission of information by the Education Sector data
collection officers to the Lagos Bureau of Statistics was needed for the
process of collecting administrative data.
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