Galaxy Backbone appointed as Nigeria’s representative on Smart Africa Alliance’s digital train
By Ibiyemi Mathew
Galaxy Backbone Limited has been appointed as Nigeria’s representative on Smart Africa Alliance Digital train.
The Alliance which is a partnership bringing together all African countries adhering to the Manifesto represented by the AU, the ITU, World Bank, AfDB, ECA, the GSMA, ICANN, and the Private Sector is a framework for the implementation, monitoring, and evaluation of the SMART Africa Manifesto designed to make it actionable.
Galaxy Backbone Limited was designated Nigeria’s Coordinator and Focal Point after a 12-member Nigeria Smart Africa Alliance Working Group (NgSAAwg) was inaugurated in April.
The group is chaired by Dr. Nasir Aliyu Shinkafi, Chief Information Security and Business Continuity Officer with Galaxy Backbone, who had been appointed by Galaxy Backbone Limited as the Coordinator and Focal Point for Nigeria at the Smart Africa Alliance.
Dr. Shinkafi puts the Alliance in context: “SMART Africa is a bold and innovative commitment from African Heads of State and Government to accelerate sustainable socio-economic development on the continent, ushering Africa into a knowledge economy through affordable access to Broadband and usage of Information and Communications Technologies.”
The breakthrough in the effort to bring Nigeria, the largest economy in Africa, to the train of Smart Africa Alliance, came on the heels of Prof. Isa Ali Ibrahim Pantami, Minister of Communications and Digital Economy who secured the approval of President Muhammadu Buhari to formalise the entry of Nigeria into the Smart Africa Alliance.
With the establishment of state of the art Tier 3 and Tier 4 Data Centres equipped with 2.2PB Storage Capacity and 41TB Memory of the Data Centres coupled with its robust Fibre Infrastructure coverage, which spans over 5,000km and transverses almost 30 states; 13 in the South and 17 in the North including the FCT, GBB is well positioned to play the role of focal point for Nigeria at the Alliance.
