Lagos, Microsoft Ink e-Government Deal

Lagos State has signed an agreement with Microsoft on the use of ICT to drive service delivery to the people of the state.

Babatunde Raji Fashola , governor of the state, said the agreement encompasses an e-governance platform. The deal is anchored on four cardinal programmes which are:  implementation of a citizen relationship management platform using existing call centre infrastructure; provision of an IT infrastructure to support Lagos State's health insurance initiative; IT skills development and affordable mobile devices; and being a premier partner under the Microsoft 4Africa initiative.

Fashola said that the state has secured the commitment of Microsoft to help train 100 applications support personnel, who will not only support the Lagos State Government but also other states in Nigeria.


Fashola said the e-governance platform will deliver services to the public using smartphones and mobile devices, while enabling the adminstration to be able to monitor the performance of each Ministry, Department and Agency (MDA) in the discharge of services.

It will also assist the government to monitor all its projects, especially those around the medium term budgetary objectives of Power, Agriculture, Transportation and Housing (PATH). There will be a private cloud for Lagos State based on Microsoft technology.