Speaking during a two-day workshop on National and Sectoral Strategies for E-Government on Thursday in Dar es Salaam, Enock Mpenzwa, said that apart from the shortage those available were under utilised.
`The government has very few IT experts; but what is worse is that we do not know how to utilise them properly,` he noted.
He said that a number of vacancies had been advertised by employers with large titles, but by the time the experts were employed they were assigned only to perform simple tasks, which did not match with their actual responsibilities, he said.
`Employers engage IT experts for posts, but the moment they begin they assign them the duties of a secretary,` he said.
For his part, a secretary with the Institute of Finance Management said that the co-ordination of the electronic government (e-government) idea was not compressive.
He named the President`s Office, Public Servants Sector as the one responsible with the coordination, adding: `There is part of the government that is still not harmonised with others as far as e-government is concerned,`
He said: `As stakeholders in e-government, we would like to advise the government to form a mechanism that will be accountable for the provision of consultancy on e-government,`
He further said that public awareness and e-government harmonisation were still low, adding:`Each citizen should know about e-government and how it works so that they would be able to support the government through comments and the like.`
Autor(en)/Author(s): Jane Mkonya
Quelle/Source: IPP Media, 22.10.2007
