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COVID-19: Galaxy Backbone deploys over 120 telepresence facilities in MDAs

6th April 2020
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Benjamin Babine, Abuja

Following the directive of the Minister of Communications and Digital Economy, Dr Isa Pantami, Galaxy Backbone (GBB) has deployed telepresence facilities at over 120 Federal Government institutions as part of efforts to limit physical meetings dueto  the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak.

The GBB utilised it’s highly secure government-wide telepresence and Collaboration facilities, to ensure government functions continue while maintaining social distancing. They have positioned their telepresence and collaboration facilities to ensure productivity, enhance security and reduce the cost of communication during this period.

This was made known last week through a Press statement signed by the Spokesperson of the Minister of Communications & Digital Economy, Mrs Uwa Suleiman.

She stated that the GBB has additional capacity to support more public and private institutions. In the statement, she said: “At this critical stage of efforts to limit the spread of the COVID -19 in the country, the Federal Government is applying measures to safeguard its personnel, by using Telepresence facilities deployed by the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy (FMoCDE), through the Galaxy Backbone (GBB) Limited, a parastatal under the ministry.

“Video conferencing terminals have been installed at over 120 Federal Government institutions, including the offices of: The Vice President, 26 Honourable Ministers, 17 Ministers of State, Chief of Staff to the President, Secretary to the Government of the Federation, Head of Civil Service of the Federationn, 37 Federal Permanent Secretaries, Nigerian Center for Disease Control (NCDC) and Other key Ministries,Departments and Agencies (MDAs) of the Federal Government.”

She explained that calls and conferences will be secured with end to end encryption within GBB operated government network, saying that GBB also has the capacity to provide both public and private sector organizations secure and reliable telepresence services from its State-of-the-Art Unified Communication Services (UCS) platform.

“In this regard, Nigerians are to rest, assured that the Federal Ministry of Communications and Digital Economy will continue to use technology to ensure that there are no interruptions in crucial government meetings. Virtual meetings will go ahead with all relevant stakeholders in a secure and reliable manner as we collectively tackle this challenge to humanity,” the spokesperson added.

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