Vice President, Yemi Osinbajo, on
Wednesday at the Presidential Villa, Abuja, inaugurated the Nigeria National
Steering Committee(NNSC) and Nigeria National Technical Committee (NNTC) for
Geo-Referenced Infrastructure and Demographic Data for Development (GRID3)
Nigeria.
GRID3 Nigeria project works
across all states in Nigeria to collect accurate, complete and location data
relevant to a variety of sectors.
GRID3 aims to generate, validate
and use geospatial data on population, settlements, infrastructure and
administrative boundaries.
Zainab Ahmed, the Minister of
Finance, Budget and National Planning chairs the GRID3 NNSC while Clem Agba,
the Minister of State for Finance, Budget and National Planning, is the
co-chairman.
The GRID3 NNTC is chaired by Yemi
Kale, Statistician-General of the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS), while Dr
Faisal Shuaib, the Executive Director, National Primary Healthcare Development
Agency (NPHCDA) is the co-chairman.
Osinbajo said geospatial data of
the scope and depth envisaged by the project was important for Nigeria’s
development objectives and ambitions, especially with the issues of education.
“I think it is compelling, also
there is a great need for this, and this will be extremely useful for planning
and extremely, especially to everybody who is involved in the entire
development enterprise.
“I think financial inclusion
initiative will also benefit greatly from the GRID3 project.
“I think also there is some
ingenuity about having the committees, about having double membership of the
committees because that can enable data users and generators to come together
and be able to interact at the same time,’’ he said.
In an overview of GRID3 Nigeria,
Agba said that it was aimed at promoting the utilisation of geospatial data for
better decision-making and delivery of interventions.
Ahmed, who was presented the
GRID3 goals, said that it aimed at developing and promoting examples of data
usage on health, education, agriculture, and water resources among others.
“Support planned national
population and housing census activities and surveys.
“Develop in-country capacity to
maintain and drive GRID3 philosophy in a sustainable manner and to continue to
maintain and update the data portal,’’ she stated.
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