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[Pakistan] E-government task force established
E-government task force established
By Our Correspondent
ISLAMABAD, Feb 8: Ministry of Science and Technology has formed an E-
government Task Force to prepare a master plan of E- government and
to identify some projects that should be implemented on priority
basis.
According to a press release issued here on Thursday an amount of
Rs35,607 million has been allocated for preparation of E- government
architecture and identification of projects. The E-government model
for Pakistan is a gigantic task.
It may take 5 to 7 years to implement the complete programme.
Therefore a modular implementation strategy will be adopted after
preparing a master plan.
The E-government Task Force has been formed under Mr Alvi Abdul
Rahim, Secretary, IT Commission. AVM Azhar Maud, Chairman, NTC, Dr
Ijaz H. Khawaja, Director General, PCB, Dr Sardar Ahmad Ansari,
Director General, Cabinet Division, Col Arshad, Cabinet Division, Mr
Qaiser Sohail, Chief Computer Centre, Planning Division and Dr Imran
A. Zulkernain, Askari Information System Ltd, will serve as members.
The Task Force will provide necessary input and guidelines to the
consultants for preparing plans and projects. Every Division has been
requested to appoint a four-member team of resource persons who are
familiar with the working of the concerned Division.
These resource officers will help in re-engineering of existing
office procedure and will be responsible for implementation of
proposed changes in their respective Division.
The project also aims at building an E-government project directorate
in IT & Telecom Division.
The Directorate will implement the future E-government projects,
undertake government employees awareness campaign, have continuous
liaison with consultants and E-government Task Force and help IT and
Telecom Division in outsourcing various e-government projects.
Under the project a comprehensive E-government awareness campaign
will be undertaken at different levels to familiarize the government
functionaries with the E-government master plan.
After preparation of master plan for E-government and identification
of different projects to be launched in 2000-2002, a series of
awareness seminars will be held for members of federal cabinet,
governors, secretaries and additional secretaries of federal
government, all resource persons nominated to provide input towards
IT efforts, provincial ministers, secretaries and chief of provincial
IT Boards.
Under the project it will be fully automated to reduce paper work to
the minimum possible level.
The project would be handled by a project manager, who will be a
government employee of the rank of joint secretary. He will be
assisted by one or two Assistant Project Managers (Software and
Hardware Sector) who will be IT experts. If government employee
possesses such qualifications he will be given preference. Otherwise
IT experts from private sector will be engaged, on contract basis.
http://www.dawn.com/2001/02/09/nat1.htm
