From 2 August to 17 September 2021, the Information Services and Systems Agency (ASSI), under the supervision of the Ministry of Digital Affairs and Digitalisation, organised a series of training workshops for those involved in managing the State's IT services.
From 2 August to 17 September 2021, the Information Services and Systems Agency (ASSI), under the supervision of the Ministry of Digital Affairs and Digitalisation, organised a series of training workshops for those involved in managing the State's IT services. Nearly one hundred participants, mainly ministry Chief Information Officers (CIOs), engineers and Information and Communication Technology specialists, took part in these workshops, held under the Programme to Strengthen Central Governance Structures (PRSCG).
Developed by the Government of the Republic of Benin with the support of German technical cooperation, the PRSCG is a programme for pooling network resources within the Beninese public administration for better information management. It aims to set up several infrastructures, including a recently completed national data centre and a national network interconnecting 187 public finance offices as well as ministries, agencies, prefectures and town halls.
Most of the infrastructure set up under the PRSCG is already operational and relies on new technologies to which users must adapt in order to make the best use of them. That is why the capacity-building workshops for those managing the State's IT services were launched, to give the beneficiaries the tools they need to operate the new infrastructure and applications successfully, particularly in terms of project management and application migration. Approaches to using the national network and the effective management of the IT services of the bodies and administrations concerned were also covered during these workshops, which lasted about six weeks.
The participants say they received specific technical training focused on the facilities planned under the PRSCG, methodologies and tools for operating the network and the data centre, as well as project management and management. They leave with new knowledge that they say they are eager to apply in their workplaces.