The Minister said the system is being introduced for automation of core businesses of the government to ensure efficiency, accuracy, effectiveness and good governance, transparency and accountability in decision making and delivery of efficient and cost-effective services. The main purpose of the e-office replication module is to promote less paper and digital government. The Executive Director of National IT Board (NITB) informed the meeting that roll out of e-office suit is in progress in nine Federal Ministries and Divisions which includes Prime Minister Office, National Assembly Secretariat, Finance Division, Planning Commission, Science and Technology, Information Technology, Cabinet, Establishment and Economic Affairs Division and subsequently, it will be implemented in other ministries and divisions in a phased manner.
A multi-ministry, single instance application has been developed and installed at central repository. E-government fiber-optic based dedicated and secure intranet has been established for the e-communication amongst federal government and its ministries and divisions. It was further explained that NITB trained more than 1400 Federal government employees on the said e-government system and rest of employees will be trained in phased manner. The Minister said after roll out of e-office system it shall be then responsibility of all Federal Ministries and Divisions to take ownership of the system and pursue necessary steps for proper change management including establishment of basic IT infrastructure and usage of system.
The Minister further elaborated that in this regard, particularly issuance of directive from Prime Minister Office to all Federal Ministries/Divisions regarding usage of system, a summary to Prime Minister has already been moved. Later, the Minister instructed that the e-Office implementation process must be expedited and in this regard necessary steps should be taken on priority.
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Quelle/Source: Pakistan Observer, 08.11.2014
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