# 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).