Africa-Press – Senegal. Senegal is struggling, until 2023, to position digital across all economic and social constructions, noted the general administrator of Gaïndé 2000, Ibrahima Nour Eddine Diagne.
‘’Ce qui a manqué, c’est un déphasage entre les compétences africaines en matière de digital et le positionnement du digital dans les politiques publiques’’, a signalé M. Diagne dans une interview accordée au journal dakarois L’As.
He explains that digital is always considered as a sector, whereas it is a “transversal” element, which is found in all sectors.
“If digital is taken as a separate subject, it will cost us dearly,” warned the expert, adding: “If we have to think digital for education, think digital for health and safety, in a split way, we will not have a coherent construction. [Our strategy] will not have the expected added value. »
‘’Nous avons un retard consommé en matière de transformation digitale, parce que dans nos pays nous continuons à mener la plupart des activités économiques et sociales avec du papier’’, a souligné M. Diagne, estimant qu’il sera ‘’assez difficile’’ de réduire cet écart.
« In Senegal, we had a 20-25 strategy, which is due to expire in two years, whereas in ten years we had not even had time to lay down the framework for steering this strategy, » said he noted.
This shows that there is a discrepancy between the speed of evolution of this dimension and the capacity to be able to appropriate it, according to Ibrahima Nour Eddine Diagne.
« Furthermore, he says, it is important to say that our development partners do not leave us room [for manoeuvre] to allow us to have our own constructions. »
Selon M. Diagne, avec le digital, un État peut accélérer son développement mais en respectant certaines normes.
Il suggère qu’il y ait des assises sur le digital.
“Everything that binds the citizen to the State has not experienced any digital transformation. Major administrations are digitized from the inside, but their relationship with the citizen is struggling to reach this level, » said the administrator of Gaïndé 2000, a structure specializing in the dematerialization of customs and foreign trade procedures and formalities.
Mr. Diagne admits all the same that experts, including himself, are often called upon by the public authorities. « But there is no coherent construction. And suddenly, all the efforts made do not translate into concrete results, » noted Ibrahima Nour Eddine Diagne.
“We must settle the question of digital identity, because if in each administration I have a different identity, we cannot make a coherent construction” of the whole, he explained.
The level of digital in public services is such that a young entrepreneur can benefit from five grants granted by the public authorities without anyone knowing, at a time when his peers cannot find any at all, because he does not there is no unified information system.
The general administrator of Gaïndé 2000 remains however « convinced » that there is, on the side of the State, more a challenge of understanding to be taken up than a lack of will.
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