Technology

Firm provides solution to downtime experienced in NIN verification, banks, hospitals

A tech firm, Byteworks Technology Solutions Limited, has provided a solution called High Availability NIN Verification System, to address downtime challenges experienced by the National Identity Management Commission (NIMC), banks, academia, hospitals, and other service providers.

This was disclosed by the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Byteworks Technology Solutions Ltd, Osuagwu Ezeukwu, on the sidelines of a five-day capacity building of NIMC staff in Abuja, by Byteworks Technology Solutions Ltd, and sponsored by MTN and Dell Computers.

According to Ezeukwu, the training is basically for NIMC professionals to have a five-day interaction with the High Availability NIN Verification System with the aim of adoption.

He also explained that the system was a project conceptualized in 2021 and implemented between 2022 and 2023 September precisely, and adoption is ongoing now, 2024 July.

He said different departments and end-user groups of NIMC are participating as part of a longer change management process, and this “will eventually allow the internal users of the system utilize a resilient and robust offer NIN verification services for Nigerians.”

Meanwhile, he commended the Director General of NIMC, Engr Bisoye Coker-Odusote, who had backed the project, supported it, and also allowed the NIMC professionals to have a five-day interaction with this system with the aim for adoption.

He said such a supportive effort will at the end of the day make businesses much more sustainable, cheaper to run and life better for Nigerians in general, therefore, assured that his company will always make a linkage between the well-being of Nigerians and NIN verification.

He said: “It actually helps in enabling businesses, especially in different industries, ranging from the telecoms, oil and gas, maritime, private sector, States and local governments.

“When you have a central system like this that different industries rely on to run their local and specific processes. It is important to make it handle load, to be able to handle traffic, it is easier said than done in practice, this project is making larger scalable industries to support different industries simultaneously.

“So that is the High Availability and it aims to eradicate or reduce downtime to the minimum. Downtime happens under different circumstances.

“The aim of High Availability System is to prevent downtime so that processes that are critical, think about health care processes, and those kind of processes are critical, we don’t want a system down when somebody’s life is dependent on it. So to build it in such a way it is resilient from downtime that is the aim of this project.”

He further stated, “In the past, one or two industries have used this system, right now Government policy direction is making attempts to have a convergence of different industries to relying on NIN verification services as such we rely on system that would help us, and this what the High Availability NIN Verification System came to achieve.”

Meanwhile, the Byteworks Technology Solutions boss assured Nigerians that their data were protected.

“Nigerians’ data are already protected. A verification transaction is very specific it has to do with saying ‘you are who you are’. For instance, if you want to register for a government benefit or admission into a university or college of education, there are instances where your identity needs to be verified to confirm indeed who you say you are. Such are the different use cases for verification.

“It implies that your data is protected, if it is not protected then you cannot be relying on such for verification. So verification is a very specific term used to confirm the identity of persons in distinct processes”, he added.

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