The Second National Academy of ICT Essentials for Government Leaders held in Cisarua – Bogor, Indonesia on 27-30 April trained 31 local government leaders on three of the eight Academy modules developed by APCICT on e-government applications, ICT trends and Internet governance.
APCICT is collaborating with the Indonesian Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (MCIT) and the University of Indonesia in promoting the use of ICT tools to enhance good governance and achieve development goals in Indonesia.
The Second National Academy of ICT Essentials for Government Leaders held this week in Cisarua – Bogor, Indonesia on 27-30 April trained 31 local government leaders on three of the eight Academy modules developed by APCICT on e-government applications, ICT trends and Internet governance. This workshop is part of a series of national Academy workshops organized to enhance the ICT capacity of local government leaders throughout Indonesia.
“This course has given me new insights on e-government and has motivated me to develop an ICT roadmap,” remarked one the workshop participants. “e-Government is a long term evolutionary process of transforming government to focus on citizen services,” explained Hyuen-Suk Rhee, Director of APCICT. “Thus, it is necessary to establish a high-level e-government roadmap with a bottom-up detailed implementation plan.” The comprehensive Academy curriculum provides guidance in promoting e-government, as well as in other aspects of ICT for development including the linkages between ICT and the Millennium Development Goals, ICT for development policy and process, and ICT project management.
To remove any language barriers, it has been MCIT and the University of Indonesia’s strategy right from the start to run the national Academy workshops in the country’s official language. Local resource persons who have been trained through APCICT's Regional Academy Training of Trainers Programme have translated all eight Academy modules into Bahasa Indonesia, and the national workshops have been conducted in the local language. The next Academy workshop in Indonesia is planned for June 2009.
"The roll-out of the Academy in Indonesia is a manifestation of synergy between international agency, government, and university," added Herry Abdul Aziz, Director of e-Government at MCIT. "The translation and delivery of the modules has removed any language barriers and contribute significantly to apprehending the contents. We plan to disseminate the modules as much as possible to other government agencies in Indonesia."
Since 2008, APCICT has been providing technical support in rolling out the Academy Programme at the national level by working closely with a number of national training institutions that are already networked with central-, state- and local-level governments, and enhancing their capacity in customizing, translating and institutionalizing the Academy Programme. So far, seven countries in Asia and the Pacific have adopted the Academy in their national ICT human capacity building effort and similar arrangements are underway in over a dozen other countries.
The Academy modules are also being translated into six different languages, and are being made available in other regions through the UN Economic Commission of Africa and the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia.
