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Abuja, Aug. 10, 2017 (NAN) The Presidential Enabling Business Environment Council (PEBEC) has picked L5 Lab as the preferred vendor for the production and provision of technical support services for the proposed technology solution.
Dr Jumoke Oduwole, the Senior Special Assistant to the President on Industry, Trade and Investment, said in a statement on Thursday in Abuja that the solution would empower citizens to monitor, evaluate and provide feedback on services received from government agencies.
L5 Lab is a leading indigenous venture development company.
She said that L5 Lab had incubated successful businesses such as Jobberman, Cheki, Kamdora, Pass.ng, Oya and Betazoo.
According to Oduwole, who is also PEBEC Secretary, the company focuses its efforts on finding and developing great leadership teams and backing them to implement ideas and build businesses at par with the world’s best.
Reacting to the selection, the Chief Executive Officer of L5 Lab, Mr Chika Nwobi, said the firm was elated upon hearing of the company’s selection after a competitive and rigorous process.
“We are very pleased to work with PEBEC in building this solution.
“We are convinced that a solution like this will help to drive the change that the government wants.
“L5 Lab is determined to play our role in helping the Council achieve its objective to make business work in Nigeria,” Nwobi said.
In a bid to institutionalise accountability and transparency in Federal Government’s Ministries, Departments and Agencies (MDAs), PEBEC had on June 24, and June 25, organised a Hackathon tagged #PEBECHack in Lagos, Nigeria.
The competition brought together 60 young techpreneurs (15 teams) shortlisted from almost 300 applications.
They competed on developing a prototype solution that would allow citizens monitor, provide feedback and make complaints about the quality of services received from key MDAs and at strategic entry-point locations such as airports, seaports and land borders.
The winning team, Team Rhapsody, pitched an E-Government Citizen Engagement app that allows citizens make complaints and give transparent and empirically tracked feedback.
The app would be useful to the MDAs as they deepen their ease of doing business reform efforts.
Team Rhapsody received one million naira prize, InfusionTech which placed second, received N300,000 while ServiTrack got N200,000 for the third position.
In addition, the top teams had an opportunity to showcase their products before potential investors at the Techplus conference in Lagos in July.
L5 Lab will manage the transition of the winning prototype to production with a timeline to go live by Oct. 1.
The preferred vendor is also expected to provide round-the-clock support and upgrades of the solution for an initial period of one year after go¬live. (NAN)
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Edited by Felix Nwadioha/Nkechi Okoronkwo