The Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan has called on all Ministries, Departments, and Agencies (MDAs) to speed up the implementation of digitalisation process.
The digitisation initiative is championed by the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation.
Yemi-Esan stated this while declaring open a One-day Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Solution Roundtable and Workshop organised for Directors of Reform Coordination and Service Improvement, Information and Communication Technology (ICT), Procurement and Human Resource Management across all MDAs in the Federal Civil Service.
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Applauding the transformative Permanent Secretaries for their efforts in driving digitalisation process, the Head of Service urged them”to ensure that they are not left behind in the process as the Office will soon stop accepting hard copies from MDAs. ”
She said; ”there is need for effective coordination at the highest level of administration, reiterating that with ECM deployment is being carried out in phases and the MDAs must follow the laid down processes before rushing to procure software solutions.
Step-by-step-implementation
Yemi-Esan shared some of the step-by-step implementation processes undergone by the Office prior to arriving at the present stage.
She further encouraged MDAs to train their staff to be computer savvy, stressing that in the journey of digitalisation, capacity is critical and as such computer literacy is now mandatory for all Federal Civil Servants.
”You are either on the Digital Train or you will be left at the Train Station,” Yemi-Esan stated.
She mandated the Directors of Reform Coordination and Service Improvement to take full charge in driving the process to fruition in their various MDAs.
The Permanent Secretary, Service Policies and Strategies Office, Dr. Emmanuel Meribole said the workshop was to deepen understanding of the standards required for a seamless deployment of ECM solution with the following presentations;
- Overview of the ECM from inception (2017) till date and the successes recorded in its implementation by the Office of the Head of the Civil Service of the Federation, OHCSF
- The modalities of Software Clearance on the Implementation of ICT in MDAs
- Importance of Functional Network for an Efficient Enterprise Content Management and an Update on LAN Upgrade in MDAs
- Benefits of Digitalisation: A Private Sector Perspective, imperative of “Attitudinal Change” to the success of any reform.
Mercy Chukwudiebere
