The Nigerians in Diaspora Commission (NiDCOM) has launched its Data Mapping and Registry Portal in Abuja to harness a wholistic and realistic data of Nigerians in the Diaspora.
The Minister of State, Foreign Affairs, Amb. Zubairu Dada, in inaugurating the Diaspora Mapping Portal, remarked that the portal will enhance Diaspora participation in demographic and national planning as well as budgeting purposes at all levels of governance and urged every Nigerian in the Diaspora to partake in it as one of the critical tools to encourage the Diaspora for national development.
The Chairman/CEO of the Commission, Hon. Abike Dabiri-Erewa, said awareness and develop a collaborative agenda for the development of a credible data base of Nigerians in the Diaspora.
According to her, "it was necessary to set up a reliable and scalable data base of the Nigerian Diaspora to provide for engagement of the Nigerian Diaspora in the policies, project and programmes of the Nigerian government at all levels.
Dabiri-Erewa further asserted that in 2020, the Commission started the establishment of data mapping sites which served, as the foremost capturing platform for raw data in over 10 countries and it is expected to be in at least 20 countries in 2021.
The NiDCOM Boss, said that the Commission is investing in high-tech mechanisms such as AI systems and advanced data analytic systems in order to recognise and bring Nigerian Diaspora together.
Mr. Franz Celestin, the Chief of Mission, International Organisation for Migration (IOM), said that the launch of the data mapping platform is a historical moment for the Commission, the Nigerian Diaspora and the country.
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