Concepts of a transformation plan

Above: The cover of the Digital Transformation Ministry’s strategy document. BitDepth#1493 for January 13, 2025 The Ministry of Digital Transformation (MDT) published its National Digital Transformation Strategy for 2024 – 2027 and it is, in a word, an embarrassment. Listen to Mark read "Concepts of a transformation plan" Mark Lyndersay 00:00 Listen to Mark read "Concepts of a transformation plan" – Mark Lyndersay Under the title BOLD (Building Our Lives Digitally) the MDT proceeds, over 88 pages that manage to be both verbose and vague, to rehash the talking points it has been spewing with great enthusiasm ever since it began communicating with the public. It’s notable that the document includes not a single photo or chart to support even a single project undertaken by the ministry since its formation under Hassel Bacchus in August 2020. In his introduction, Minister Bacchus restates his ambitions for a “Digital Government that collectively offers a new way to address the end-to-end consumption and delivery of goods and services to customers using appropriate digital technology.” He goes on to revisit previously stated notions of how this is to be achieved via the concepts of a digital society, digital economy and digital governance. The […]

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