Objectives of the Shared Services Mechanism
The reorganisation for IT departments around Shared services will enable a successful digital transformation and meet the various demands and expectations from citizens, stakeholders, partners and employees. More specifically, the objectives are as follows:
- Accelerating the digitization efforts for Rwanda in response to national targets in National Strategy documents and promoting innovation;
- Promoting IT standardisation, reducing spending on systems procured from abroad, removing duplications and achieving efficient service delivery across the entire Government;
- Consolidating and modernising technology platforms to ensure better quality of service to citizens;
- Reducing the cost of IT resources by achieving economies of scale through consolidation of IT purchases at Ministry level;
- Achieve greater consistency and satisfaction for the end-users through the introduction of better citizen-oriented design principles;
- Stronger data governance to drive best-practice in intelligent reporting and business insights paving the way for more elaborated use cases of Analytics and Artificial intelligence;
- Focus on preventive management rather than reactive management to achieve greater stability of IT systems (i.e.; preventive maintenance).