The Executive Director, Prof Catherine Ngila attended the Smart Government Summit held on 2-3 October 2024 at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Nairobi, hosted by Government of Kenya (Smart Gov. Dept), Dx5 (formerly CIO Africa), ActionLab, Space.ai, NTTData, African eDevelopment Resource Centre, ManageEngine, and many others. The theme of the Summit was: Reimagining Governance, Agile, Inclusive- Harnessing the Power of AI for Transformative Change.
The Summit brought together key stakeholders from government, industry, and academia, to discuss how digital technology is transforming the public sector governance.
Prof Ngila participated in the panel discussion on “Nurturing Talent in the Public Service”. The panel discussed strategies to nurture talent through skills development to build capacity. She was particularly interested in ways in which organizations can promote inclusivity by addressing the gender gap brought about by digital divide which creates a division and inequality around access to information and resources. Women and youth are particularly affected by unequal access to opportunities in the society. The main challenges for women and girls in digital transformation are; Access to facilities and opportunities, Digital literacy and Online safety. Mentorship programmes go along way in mitigating these challenges by providing support, building resilience, and offering practical strategies to overcome and achieve one’s long-term success.
About Smart Government
Smart Government is a Unit under the office of the President in Kenya. The Unit has a mandate is to support the coordination of automation of Government services and ensuring digital efficiency in the running of government and its programmes and activities. The Unit works very closely with the Kenya Ministry of Information, Communication and The Digital Economy (MICDE). The mission of the ministry is to facilitate sustainable social economic transformation of Kenya by leveraging on ICT, universal access to Information and Communication services for global competitiveness.
Acknowledgement to: #dX5(CIO): https://cioafrica.co/
