Africa-Press – Angola. The Minister of State and Chief of Staff of the President of the Republic, Adão de Almeida, said yesterday that the modernization of Public Administration requires the urgent approval of an integrated, participatory digital transition agenda designed for the challenges of the future.
Speaking at the inaugural session of the IMA Forum (Institute for Administrative Modernization), he highlighted that the event can be a valuable instrument at the service of harmonizing visions, interests and paths so that the digital transition is harmonious, transversal and permanent.
Topics such as interoperability and the sharing of systems and information in the Public Administration, the digital transition and the integration between public services, among others, he underlined, will deserve particular attention from the Forum.
For Adão de Almeida, one of the next challenges for the Executive to achieve the great qualitative leap, with regard to the modernization of Public Administration, is the guarantee of interoperability between databases and technological systems in the various ministerial departments and public services.
“We are part of the same Public Administration. We must act as such, in a synchronized way with the sharing of data and information”, he reaffirmed, indicating that this change will allow the elimination of procedures that, due to interoperability, will become obsolete and
At the meeting dedicated to regular approaches by specialists on issues related to the search for adequate technological solutions for the modernization of Public Administration, Adão de Almeida recognized that the digital transition brings with it several current and urgent issues, highlighting those resulting from cybersecurity.
The creation of the Institute of Administrative Modernization, he explained, resulted from the realization that the permanent modernization of Public Administration is possible, necessary and unavoidable. Modernization, he added, demands that the citizen be and be at the center of attention.
According to the official, the modernization of Public Administration requires that civil servants be trained so that they are up to the challenge: “We are aware that the road is still long and we know that goodwill alone is not enough to achieve certain objectives and goals. Permanent, concerted and forward-thinking action is required”.
The Minister of State congratulated the Institute of Administrative Modernization for the initiative to institutionalize the IMA Forum, having encouraged its regular holding, with a view to ensuring a permanent inter-institutional dialogue capable of promoting the search for solutions to problems that affect each, as administrative entities. , public agents and citizens who demand public services and who often face an inexplicable bureaucratic burden.
Manuel Homem defends a simple and agile service
For the Minister of Telecommunications, Information Technologies and Social Communication, the Institute of Administrative Modernization has the responsibility to ensure, more and more, the success that is intended for a Public Administration that is more at the service of the citizen of simple, easy and agile way.
In the videoconference intervention, Manuel Homem said that, with this, new challenges for the interoperability of these services are launched, which include information security, easy access for citizens to services, without compromising data security and the needs that everyone has. to continue to ensure that cybersecurity in accessing services and information technologies is achieved.
The great challenge, he stressed, is also to ensure that there is interoperability, not only at the technological level, but in the institutions, processes and organization that must continue to work. Electronic governance in Angola has a path and several actions are materialized. from the insertion in the Public Administration of policies and conditions so that the support infrastructures for electronic governance services could be implemented.
The program also included a roundtable that addressed the challenges of electronic governance in the past, present and future. For this purpose, the executive director of the Sovereign Fund and professor Pedro Sebastião Teta, Sílvio Almada, Augusto Mota de Carvalho and Silvina Mendes de Carvalho were the speakers at the table.
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