Moving the government to digital transformation

Above: Minister of Digital Transformation Hassel Bacchus. Photo courtesy the Ministry of Digital Transformation. BitDepth#1494 for January 20, 2025 Last week’s column was described by a reader as “uncharitable.” Which is correct, in a strict reading of its intent. It offered no gifts and cut no slack. Listen to Mark read "Moving the government to digital transformation" Mark Lyndersay 00:00 Listen to Mark read "Moving the government to digital transformation" – Mark Lyndersay The national effort to effect tangible digital transformation is critically important and merits continuous evaluation. While blunt assessment has its place, so too does unsolicited advice. The plans of the Ministry of Digital Transformation (MDT) are neither misguided nor inappropriate, but their ambitions so robustly exceed our lived reality that a clearer effort to harness strategy to more clearly stated tactics is needed. Leadership. Hassel Bacchus is the Digital Transformation Minister, but the government is led by the Prime Minister and, in some shadow role, the Prime Minister in Waiting. Bacchus is guided by collective consensus, so if the goals of the government must be set by the PM and PMiW, and the compass there has not been clearly set to a digital future. The father […]

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