BY MAXINE KAMUS
The Directorate of Personnel Management in collaboration with the Directorate of Information and Communication Technologies organized a forum on digital transformation to advocate the digitization of General Orders of the Public Service and the automation of all the activities of associated Human Resources management.
Civil Service Minister John Sungi said the main purpose of this joint forum is to brief all Human Resource Management (HRM) officials and the civil service ICT unit on the road to the digital transformation of HRM.
Mr. Sungi said the issues of concern for the DPM are lack of information and unreliable data on the workforce, poor performance and lack of reporting, high level of corruption and lack of discipline. .
“The intervention of ICT by the government to improve public services will have the application of ICT to modernize public services and the forum is a major breakthrough of DPM in the ICT space.
This intervention will now help the DPM to know all the employees of the public service, because for too long the government has not paid attention to the human resources of the department.
Human resources are key and it is time for public service leaders to realize the importance of human resources and change their mindset to prioritize human resources,” he said.
DPM Secretary Taies Sansan said that DPM has taken the lead in embracing digitization or digital transformation in HR and aims to pilot enabling strategies in its HR roadmap and its business plan.
Ms. Sansan said the business analytics projects will use the dashboard reports on various staff emoluments which are related data and also an integral part of digital transformation.
She said HR digital transformation will have access to bi-monthly PE dashboard reports and will be awarded to agency heads and HRM managers and practitioners at the forum.
