Initiative for Digital Government and Cybersecurity in Horn of Africa countries
Project objectives
The overall objective of the D4D Horn of Africa Initiative is to support member states of the Horn of Africa region to effectively apply digital technologies towards an efficient, people-centred and harmonised digital public service delivery.
To achieve this, the multi-donor action has two Specific Objectives:
Specific Objective 1: Selected Horn of Africa countries enhance their service delivery through implementing digital government services.
Specific Objective 2: HoA countries develop and improve national and regional cybersecurity.
ESTDEV is contributing to Specific Objective 1, which in turn is divided into 3 Outputs (see table below).
Actions and results
Activity 1: Conducting two Digital Readiness Studies. Digital Readiness studies are country level assessments that address the country's overall change readiness, ecosystem and possible focus areas for intervention to introduce digital government services. Additionally the potential for regional harmonisation of digital government services and cross border data exchange will be investigated. Studies will be carried out for Somalia and Djibouti.
Activity 2: Development of three national roadmaps for the introduction of e-government services. Based on the stakeholder interest mapping, selected e-government services and validation workshops carried out in previous steps by International Telecommunication Union (ITU), detailed roadmaps for Kenya, Djibouti and Somalia will be developed for the introduction of national e-government services, including the piloting and roll-out phase, as well as possibilities for regional harmonisation.
Activity 3: Provide support to ITU in the identification of 5 e-government services with potential for regional harmonisation and holding Validation Workshops.
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