Pantami said this at the Global Data Privacy Day celebration organised nationally by the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) in Abuja.
Global Privacy Day is being celebrated every Jan. 28, to raise awareness on the need for data privacy both for individuals and public institutions in line with best global practices.
In Nigeria, the week-long programme had its theme as “
Harnessing Data as Critical Infrastructure for the Digital Economy” and featured webinars, quiz competition by secondary school students,among other activities.
“The current efforts of the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy in encouraging Nigerians to register for NIN is a strategic and critical national effort to ensure Nigerians have a credible, converged and consistent database for identity purposes.