Prioritise ICT Training, Head Of Service Tells MDAs

In a bid to speed up the implementation of the ongoing digitalisation process, the head of the civil service of the federation, Dr. Folasade Yemi-Esan has called on permanent secretaries to prioritise training and re-training of civil servants in their different ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs) on Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

Yemi-Esan made this call at a service-wide “Webinar on Digitalisation”, organised by the office of the head of the civil service of the federation (OHCSF) to sensitise federal civil servants across the nation.

In a statement signed by Mohammed Ahmed, deputy director of communications for the head of service of the federation, Yemi-Esan took the audience through the level of implementation of the digitalisation process in the OHCSF and the efforts of the government in fast-tracking implementation such as the development and documentation in hard and soft copies of standard operating system (SOPs) for all departments and units.

“First, in the OHCSF and subsequently for all ministries, the establishment of scanning center, which saw to the automation of both policy and personal files from 2010 till date, training of officers from different MDAs, development of digitalisation roadmap via a service-wide roundtable on enterprise content management held, recently.

“Upgrade of local area network (LAN) by Galaxy Backbone across MDAs, national policy on virtual engagement approved by the president in 2020, which every civil servant must be conversant with, amongst others. She called on MDAs to take a cue from the OHCSF,” he stated.

Yemi-Esan said that the implementation of the digitalisation process has been decentralized to be driven by the permanent secretaries in their respective MDAs, urging them to ensure that digitalisation comes first in the order of priority in their budgeting.