FG begins process to implement standardised national website

The Federal Government has begun the process of implementing national standardised websites for national and public institutions through the Ministry of Communications Innovation and Digital Economy.

The adoption was made at the April Edition of the DevsInGov on Wednesday in Abuja.

The Ministry organised co-create groups to make recommendations of key features that should be on the websites and they came up with recommendations that would be subject to approval by the relevant stakeholders.

The Director-General of the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA), Kashifu Abdullahi used the opportunity to call for collaboration amongst stakeholders within the public sector in order to move the initiative forward.

The Special Adviser Digital Transformation of the Ministry of Communications, Innovation and Digital Economy, Nafisa Isah who organised the co-create project, said that it was to build trust in government digital transactions.

“We are talking about the Nigerian Web Design Standards Project, which is a project by the ministry in collaboration with NITDA.

“This project is aimed to create standardised principles, design principles, frameworks and guidelines for all Nigerian government websites.

“This is providing accessibility and enhanced user experience for all the government websites. The idea is to ensure that we have consistency in the design across all the government websites,” she said.

Mr Saliu AbdulKareem, who represented the Director-General of NITDA, said that the websites would have the Nigerian colour, the ministry’s logo and the quote of arms.

Abdulkareem said that the standerdised websites would not start and end at the executive level but a bottom-up approach.

“These websites will look Nigerian. Secondly, it will also help users to be sure that these websites are actually genuine.

“If they have uniformity and conformity, people will really understand that this is a true Nigerian website,” he said.