The reports are the result of the completion of the first phase of the e-Government programme.
Minister for Finance and National Planning Mahendra Chaudhry explained that the e-Government was funded via a Government of China concessional loan of about $US20 million, with an allocation of $2m provided for the local component in the 2008 Budget for this programme.
He said the e-Government programme aims to raise and sustain GDP growth, reduce unemployment, build competencies across the civil service, alleviate poverty and maintain law and order.
“The specific objectives are to implement financially sustainable service delivery models, reinvent services delivery model to provide citizen-centric outcomes, enhance operational efficiencies within and across government agencies and enhance ICT skills competency of government employees at all levels.”
He said that the short term focus of the e-Government programme is on providing improved service delivery mechanisms for those government agencies whose services have high impact and are feasible to use ICT as a tool.
“In the medium to long term, the emphasis will be on addressing the infrastructure inadequacies, the re-engineering of business processes, the training of the government staff, as well as a new governance structure for ICT across the civil service.”
Chaudhry said that the programme will now move onto Phase 2 which is the implementation: execution and realisation of the Master Plan; Governance for e-Government Report; and the Strategic ICT Competency Study Report.
“The Master Plan component contains the long-term strategic goal of the e-Government Programme.
“Its goal is to improve interoperability, achieve cost control, improve security, aid and enable scalability, and reduce technical risk of the various e-Government initiates.
“The Government for e-Government Report component deals with the inter-agency organisational structure, people, policies and processes that provide the framework for collective decision rights, accountability to encourage desirable behavior and outcome in implementing eGovernment initiatives.
“The Strategic ICT Competency Study Report consists of a comprehensive training plan to equip civil servants with ICT competencies including governance and management structure and the roles and responsibilities of key stakeholders.”
Phase 3 will involve the monitoring and review of the executed plans.
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Quelle/Source: fijilive, 09.04.2008
