In a frantic effort to reduce the over 22 million out-of-school children in Nigeria, the Federal Government is set to unveil the Digital National Education Information Management System, DNEMIS, in its drive to modernise education administration through technology and data-driven management.
At a briefing in Abuja, the National Project Coordinator of the Special Programmes Operations and Implementation Unit in the Office of the Minister of Education, Adebayo Onigbanjo, disclosed that more than 32 million students have already been enrolled on the digital platform.
According to Onigbanjo, the platform forms the backbone of the Nigeria Education Data Infrastructure, NEDI, an initiative under the Nigeria Education Sector Renewal Initiative, NESRI, designed to provide reliable, timely and integrated education data for planning, budgeting, policymaking and service delivery.
Responding to questions on how the platform would help address Nigeria’s out-of-school children challenge, Onigbanjo said the availability of accurate data would enable government to identify learning gaps, monitor students’ progress and make targeted investments where they are most needed.
Addressing concerns over data privacy, he said the system was developed on globally recognised digital architecture with strong safeguards to protect personal information.
According to him, sensitive information would be masked while digital identity profiles would allow authorised users to associate data securely without exposing personal details.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
