DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES AND PUBLIC POLICIES
Announcement in Brief
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Programme Rationale
In order to respond to the various challenges they face and to ensure that a given situation changes or evolves, States are required to design, develop and implement public policies. The need for public policies has been even more felt in recent years following the COVID crisis, the war in Ukraine and the social and economic impacts that this has generated both in the world and on the African continent.
Thus, putting in place public policies or reforms is the specificity of a State.
On the other hand, digital technology, over the past decades, has changed our way of doing things, but also our way of being. Digital technology facilitates the collection, processing and dissemination of information as well as bringing citizens closer to the administration and the provision of administrative services. Hence, digital presents many opportunities that must be seized. Otherwise, these opportunities will turn into threats for States (because other countries will have done so and will have derived competitive advantages, including attracting citizens and businesses from “failing” States).
Objectives
The training aims to build the capacity of public service executives in considering the digital dimension when defining and implementing public policies.
Specifically, it will work on:
- Introducing public policies and their interest in achieving a specific goal or solving a given problem
- Strengthening capacities in understanding the digital dimension for public policies
- Strengthening capacities to better exploit digital technology for the optimization of public policies and their implementation
- Strengthening capacities to define and implement digital public policies
- Building capacity for agile implementation of public policies
