The appropriations allocated to the Ministry of Digital Affairs and Digitalisation for the 2023 financial year amount to thirty-one billion seventy-five million eighty-one thousand (31,075,081,000) CFA francs, i.e. 9,003,433,000 CFA francs for recurrent expenditure and 22,071,648,000 CFA francs for capital expenditure. This budget is up 23.57% on the 2022 budget. This increase in the 2023 budget results from the many projects launched in 2022, which are to be continued and stepped up in 2023. The actions to be carried out by the Ministry in 2023 will make it possible to continue extending connectivity to all Benin's municipalities, including rural areas, to accelerate the digitalisation of the Beninese administration, to strengthen digital usage and trust, and to make our municipalities more attractive through their digital transformation. This draft budget also aims to ensure the modernisation and outreach of the Beninese media.
The appropriations allocated to capital expenditure, which have risen by 30% overall compared with 2022, will make it possible to implement the major actions planned.
The Minister of Digital Affairs and Digitalisation therefore presented to the MPs the main actions planned through the structuring, high-impact projects led by the Ministry. These actions are:
Extending mobile coverage in rural areas and setting up community digital points in eligible municipalities that do not yet have them
Designing and developing new training curricula to enrich the training offering of the school of digital professions
Developing and promoting artificial intelligence and data management applications useful to national programmes
Continuing the implementation of Smart Gouv by securing, strengthening and generalising electronic mail and document management
Implementing activities relating to the digital transformation of local authorities
Accelerating the modernisation of ORTB
Bringing the new television channel A+ Bénin into operation
Strengthening the regulatory framework for the media sector