“This administration's goal is to make the entire government online; to transform the level of service that government delivers to our people. E-Government is what will enable the Government of Jamaica to be a more efficient end user of ICT and to be more efficient, transparent, and effective,” Minister Paulwell said.
E-Government Jamaica Limited, formerly Fiscal Services Ltd (FSL), will be the entity empowered to provide general ICT services to the entire public sector, not only the revenue departments as FSL was previously mandated. That company will also assume some of implementation responsibilities of the Central Information Technology Office (CITO) which was wound up in October. The National ICT Advisory Council, whose membership comprises representatives of academia, civil society, ICT stakeholder and others, was created as an independent body tasked with giving the Minister advice on ICT policy and strategy.
“We have been trying to get this going for over seven years, but we are now turning all those studies, all that research, all the planning into action so that the Jamaican people and government can truly be a part of the global digital revolution,” the Minister said.
Professor Evan Duggan, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of the West Indies Mona is Chairman of E-Gov, while ICT Consultant Carlton Samuels is chair of the ICT Advisory Council.
In charging the two boards, Minister Paulwell urged both boards to remember that the Jamaican people must be the focus of all their operations, and that Government must lead in policy and practice.
“ICT is one of the main lynchpins of our national growth strategy, and we must all become evangelists for ICT, but this transformation must start with Government,” Minister Paulwell said.
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Autor(en)/Author(s): Ernie Megginson
Quelle/Source: Go Jamaica, 14.11.2013
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