Entity lags despite push towards digital transformation; chairman says low pay owing to high attrition rate BY ALICIA DUNKLEY-WILLIS Senior staff reporter dunkleywillisa@jamaicaobserver.com Independent consultant and advisor Christopher Reckord (third left) holds the attention of (from left) Dr Warren Vernon programme director, National Identification System (NIDS); Professor Gunjan Mansingh, senior lecturer and department head at the University of the West Indies, Mona; and Diane Edwards, director of the Mona School of Business and Management at the UWI during a panel discussion on digital transformation. Occasion was Wednesday’s Jamaica: The Road to Digital Government forum hosted by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) on how digital transformation can strengthen the public sector and the Government at the AC Kingston Hotel in St Andrew. (Photo: Karl McLarty) WITH the Government trumpeting plans to establish eGov Jamaica Limited as the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Authority by the next financial year, concerns are again being raised about high attrition at the entity and its inability to attract highly skilled talent. The eGov entity (formerly Fiscal Services Limited), which is currently responsible for implementing ICT projects across government ministries, departments and agencies (MDAs), is to soon morph into the ICT Authority to improve the […]
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