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July and August this year brought more than a hundred Nigerian visitors
to Nova's office. They were senior civil servants from the various departments
in then Lagos State Government
which deal with planning and building control.
The visitors came in four batches, each of about 25 officials, and
were on a study tour initiated by our local partner in Nigeria
- Eartholeum Networks Limited. The main contracting party for this
study tour is the
Singapore Co-operation Enterprise (SCE). Each group spent five
days in Singapore. They visited government agencies including
the Building and Construction Authority (BCA), Urban Redevelopment
Authority (URA), and Jurong Town Corporation (JTC) and were briefed
on the policies and procedures which
have made Singapore so successful in managing development.
Each group also spent a day with Nova. Several staff members explained and demonstrated
our E-Government solutions PAVO and OCTANS, implemented in many award-winning projects.
Amongst other things, our visitors were impressed with the electronic submission of building
and structural plans by architects and engineers in Singapore. The visitors all showed a
keen interest and there was a good deal of discussion and a very positive response.
Our group CEO, Mr Steven Chan, has travelled to Nigeria to follow
up on the strong interests shown. Together with Eartholeum, he made a series
of presentations of CORENET (Construction and Real Estate Network) Project
and City Planning & Management Systems to the Lagos State Governor and
his officials.

Figure 1 – Nova Chairman, Mr. Steven Chan with Mr Adediran Joseph Ayodele,
Deputy Director from Ministry of Physical Planning & Urban Development,
Lagos State Government

Figure 2 - Group Photo taking session – Delegates from Lagos State Government with Nova
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About PAVO-Collaborative Framework & OCTANS
PAVO Collaborative Framework is a platform product scalable to meet different types
of collaborative transactions seamlessly over the Internet between individuals and
organizations, be it government or private sector. As such, PAVO™ is packaged with the
necessary workflow and document management, process intelligence and secured transmission
features. With thousands of users worldwide, it is also the platform integrating our other products – OCTANS & FORNAX.
OCTANS is a series of products that supports functions which are carried out
by local government organisations such as city councils, municipal councils, district councils in
controlling and managing land planning and development. OCTANS™ was developed to support the
complex processes and interaction between developers, their professional advisers, and the
authorities.
Both PAVO and OCTANS are built entirely on J2EE platform, adhering to open systems standards
to ensure that applications-specific modules can be easily plugged-in.
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to Marketing at enquiry@nova-hub.com
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