Government sets up Digital Transformation Agency – aimnews.org

Maputo, 30 Mar (AIM) – The Mozambican government created the Digital Transformation and Innovation Agency (ATDI) “to face the challenges of technological fragmentation in public administration and the need to accelerate the integrated modernization of public services”, declared Prime Minister Benvinda Levi on Monday.

Speaking in Maputo, at the ceremony in which the president of the new agency, Adilson Gomes, took office, Levi said that it is ATDI’s task to “boost innovation and technological modernization and thus continually improve the provision of State services to citizens”.

ATDI’s responsibilities, he continued, include “the harmonization and interoperability of the State’s digital platforms, the management and integration of data centers, and the rationalization of the acquisition of digital service provision systems”.

“Digital transformation”, declared the Prime Minister, “is one of the structuring pillars to promote the continuous modernization of the State in the context of improving services throughout the country”.

“The commitment to digital transformation”, he continued, “also seeks to ensure that no Mozambican is left behind in taking advantage of the benefits of new Information and Communication Technologies, regardless of where they live”.

The government, Levi said, wants digital systems “to be increasingly comprehensive, resilient and interoperable, and to ensure that Mozambique consolidates itself as a digital, innovative and inclusive nation”.

She stressed that technology “only has real value when it facilitates and improves people’s lives – that is, when it reduces distances, democratizes opportunities and transforms rights into tangible opportunities”.

She believes that Gomes can rise to this challenge, as he has more than 20 years of experience in information technologies, telecommunications and digital transformation.
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