The Caribbean Center for Development Administration (CARICAD) is pleased to inform you that the Technical and Advisory Support Facility (TASF) on E-Government has now been established here at CARICAD.
This Facility was set-up in collaboration with the United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Division for Public Administration and Development Management (UNDESA/ DPADM), and is mandated to implement the Action Oriented E-Government Strategy which was adopted at the 5th Caribbean Ministerial Consultation on Regional Cooperation for E-government Capacity Building in Barbados, during June 2004.
The Strategy was developed on the basis of the political consensus that was built by a series of Ministerial Consultations, which took place between 2000 and 2003. This consensus focused on the need for capacity building to enable meaningful public sector reform; on using information and communications technologies (ICT) to take advantage of new development opportunities in general and to improve the quality of public services in particular; on the need to make e-government programs part of not only ICT strategies, but also of national plans on economic growth and social development.
The Facility was established on the premise that “even if the situation for e-government development might be different from country to country in the region, there is ample space for regional cooperation and for benefiting from the economies of scale, within the context of Caribbean regional integration.”
The Facility is staffed by a Knowledge and Information Manager, and a Research Assistant, Dr. Cletus K. Bertin, and Mr. Emerson O. Bryan respectively
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