Africa-Press – Angola. The Executive defends, within the framework of the modernization actions of the Public Administration, that the Digital Transition must be the solution to bring services to all citizens, observing, for this, an effective operationalization, which takes into account the territorial extension. from the country.
The Executive’s perspective was put forward by the Minister of State and Chief of Staff of the President of the Republic, Adão de Almeida, having recognized, by the way, that the territorial dimension is configured as a “quite challenging” imperative. The official shared this position during the World Conference on Digital Transition in Public Administration, which took place in Luanda last Thursday.
Speaking as “host”, Adão de Almeida underlined that “Angola’s territorial extension, embodied in 1,246,700 km2, which makes it the 22nd largest country in the world and the 7th on the African continent, represents, without undoubtedly a gigantic challenge to bring public services to all citizens.
The Minister of State and head of the Civil House of the President of the Republic made public, on Thursday, the approval of the Digital Transition Agenda for Public Administration 2022-2027, where the demographic variable is also presented as one of the many challenges that the Executive has to face in this ambitious path.
According to the projections of the National Statistics Institute (INE) for 2022, the country has just over 33 million inhabitants, of which around 64 percent are urban and 36 are rural. Of the total advanced, he continued, 15 million, representing 45 percent of the population, are between 15 and 49 years old, and the national median age is 17 years old.
Adão de Almeida made it known that, taking into account the challenges of the Executive, “they impose on us a vision of the future”. According to INE projections for 2050, he added, the Angolan population should double, reaching almost 68 million inhabitants, of which 40 million will be urban and 28 million rural.
More than 35 million, corresponding to 51 percent of the population, according to the data, it is estimated that they will be between 15 and 49 years old, and the national median age will be approximately 23 years old. The province of Luanda is expected to have, in 2050, almost 17 million inhabitants.
The Minister of State Adão de Almeida stressed that “it is for this reality that we have to prepare the Public Administration, taking into account the demand for public service that lies ahead”. He justified that the traditional way that prevails “in our Public Administration does not have the capacity to respond”.
Despite the challenges highlighted, he mentioned that the demographic projections offer, on the other hand, a potential for opportunities that should be taken advantage of. According to the data, he reinforced, 63 percent of the population is under 25 years old, which represents a great opportunity for transformation.
On the occasion, the official considered the Agenda for the Digital Transition of Public Administration in Angola a necessary, unavoidable and unavoidable instrument, “if we want to be up to the current demand and the demands of the future.
In his view, a Digital Transition of Public Administration, carried out in an integrated, rigorous and coordinated way, is the most important condition for reaching further, faster and with greater efficiency.
The Executive, under the leadership of the President of the Republic João Lourenço, highlighted, has developed actions with a view to simplifying acts and procedures for the continuous reduction of bureaucracy in administrative action and the digitalization of Public Administration.
A Relationship Marked By Disappointments
The Minister of State recalled that the history of the State and its relationship with the citizen is marked by a permanent connection between service provision and demand, between the ability to provide and the demand for provision.
Throughout history, he said, this relationship has registered ups and downs, not infrequently, and for the most different reasons, the relationship between the State and the citizen is also marked by disillusionment in relation to the service provided by the State. “Disillusionment and discontent, however, have been the main reason for the permanent need to reform the State and seek new solutions.
For Adão de Almeida, relationship crises have been responded to with “reinventions” of the State in its way of being and acting. encouraged to seek models capable of making the State more prepared to respond to the growing demand of citizens for services.
More than ideological elaborations, dogmas and prisons to standards, the Public Administration needs ambition, audacity and pragmatism in the search for solutions, otherwise its relationship with citizens will become an endemic disillusionment.
“Today’s world is characterized by rapid and constant changes in all domains. The notion we have today of time and the urgency of transforming phenomena is completely different from the one we had a few decades ago”, he concluded.
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