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📢 Spotlight on Gilgit-Baltistan! 🏔️ 🌟 Chief Secretary Mr. Abrar Ahmed Mirza inaugurated innovative digital initiatives at GB PMRU, enhancing governance through collaboration with IT professionals. 🖥️ Recent developments include a Management Information System (MIS), e-ACR, Asset Management System, and the GB Heatmaps Portal to monitor development progress. 🌍 Breaking New Ground in Tourism! 🌟 🗣️ Introducing the Volunteer Tourism initiative, the FIRST project under the GB Government Innovation Fellowship, a Code for Pakistan collaboration. 🏔️ It's a game-changer for digital governance in Gilgit-Baltistan and the FIRST of its kind in Pakistan, promoting responsible, community-driven tourism. 🤝 Code for Pakistan plays a vital role in driving these initiatives, reaffirming the commitment to developing digital solutions for public offices in Gilgit-Baltistan. 🌐 An exciting chapter for Gilgit-Baltistan as it embraces the digital age for efficient, people-centric governance. Stay tuned for more updates! #GBDigitalInitiatives #InnovationForGB #VolunteerTourism #DigitalGovernance

Online participants at Evidence 2023 took a tour of the SAMEA Virtual Evaluation guideline with lessons learned from virtual evaluation. This session introduced participants to the SAMEA virtual evaluation guideline - a free digital resource - and shared experiences and lessons learned from virtual evaluation practice in South Africa and Kenya.    Virtual evaluation is the adaptation of an evaluation design and methodology, whereby planning, data collection, data analysis and reporting, take place from a different location separate from where the initiative was implemented i.e., in-person activities are replaced with digital, in-person interaction but without physical contact. Virtual evaluation can be undertaken throughout the evaluation cycle or at key steps e.g., design in-person and undertake data collection virtually. It differs from traditional evaluation practice by increasing the use of technology and secondary data. Watch: https://lnkd.in/dh_5Sh-P. 

IOM - UN Migration Executive Office Newsletter spotlight on Local Governments and Inclusive Cities: Q & A with Sashini Gomez. Read the full newsletter to gain insight to how it relates to the Director General Amy Pope vision, the global agenda on localization and links to resources for you and your interlocutors to act on local response, policy and partnerships with local governments and cities!

The Ministry of Information, Communications and the Digital Economy (MICDE) and the ICT Authority of Kenya, with the support of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), are developing a national digital skills roadmap for Kenya. This roadmap aims to: 1️⃣ Assess Kenya's digital skills needs for ICT professionals 2️⃣ Identify any existing skills gaps 3️⃣ Develop a plan to harmonize digital skills training for the future This initiative aligns with Kenya's National Digital Masterplan 2022-2032 and will help ensure a skilled workforce prepared for the future of technology. KICTANet would like to ask you to participate in this project. As part of the assignment, Prof. Thomas Senaji, PhD., Pr. Eng. (The Consultant) has been contracted to collect data from stakeholders on ICT digital skills to guide the subsequent development of the national digital skills roadmap. How You Can Help:- Please complete the following two questionnaires: ⚙ Part I: Digital Skills Assessment (5-10 minutes)   https://lnkd.in/dmgwt_N5   ⚙ Part II: Digital Skills Competency (10-15 minutes)  https://lnkd.in/dV_SEZRv Dr. Grace Githaiga, Eng. John Kipchumba Tanui, MBS, John Walubengo, CISA, CDPSE, (OGW)

How You Can Help:- Please complete the following two questionnaires: ⚙ Part I: Digital Skills Assessment (5-10 minutes)   https://lnkd.in/dmgwt_N5 ⚙ Part II: Digital Skills Competency (10-15 minutes)  https://lnkd.in/dV_SEZRv

EMA publishes 2023 annual report of SME office - read about how we can support SMEs here: https://lnkd.in/emd2Zq49

🥁 Open Government Partnership is in the #spotlight ⚡ 2️⃣ packed days at OGP Summit in #Tallinn, #Estonia 👇 ✅ Yesterday, Regional School of Public Administration contributed to the session organised by Joseph Foti about the new OGP Strategy’s line of work related to collaboration with Schools of Government 👉 Olivera Damjanovic presented ReSPA’s #capacitybuilding activities dedicated to OGP principles implemented in cooperation with OGP Support Unit that have been gathering #WesternBalkans high officials, national Point of Contact and #civilservants working on implementing specific OGP commitments and measures 👉 Practitioners, educators and project leaders from all regions discussed the different aspects of educational work and exchanged valuable inputs for #planning the activities within the new OGP line of work for 2023-24.      ✅ Today, OGP #WesternBalkans Regional #Dialogue Session on #OpenData shed light on the implementation of the OGP commitments and measures related to Open data and findings of the OGP Independent Reporting Mechanism ▶ How the Western Balkans are dealing with implementing the measures on Open data ❓ 👉 Andreas Pavlou emphasised the need to appraise the possible results that implementing the measures related to Open data might produce when planning Open data commitments. 👉 Larisa (Panait) Barac presented the latest developments from #Romania in boosting Open data publishing and how Romania is including the perceived use and re-use of Open data when bringing about new policy measures for Open data publishers.   🎯 The most #discussed topics by OGP Point of Contact from #Albania, #BosniaandHerzegovina, #Montenegro, #NorthMacedonia and #Serbia were: low level of opening of existing government data sets, inadequate formats, lack of employees working on open data, lack of awareness on the institutional side and the insufficient knowledge at the side of the civil servants needed for opening of data. #opengovernment #opengov #transparency #publicadministration

📢 A new call for applications for the participation of municipalities and cities for our Bosnia and Herzegovina Local governance assistance activity is open! Selected municipalities will receive multi-year assistance to better plan for, manage, and improve the quality of local government services, and increase citizens and businesses participation in decision making processes. What type of assistance municipalities and cities can expect? ✅ Development of feasibility study for viable public-private partnership projects ✅ Development of municipal property management portal ✅ Upgrade of digital infrastructure ✅ Development of strategic documents - development strategy, communication strategy, etc. ✅ And other assistance that will increase investment and contribute to sustainable development This time 20 municipalities that fulfill criteria’s will be selected. 🕐 The deadline for sending an application is 25 October 2023, at 5 p.m. The dates for informational sessions that will take place in Bihać, Bijeljina, Livno, Mostar and Trebinje will be announced on Monday October 9. For additional information please send you inquire to lgaa@tetratech.com

Fifth Ordinary Session of AU STC-CICT 20-23 November 2023 - Addis Ababa, Ethiopia The Fifth Ordinary Session of the Specialized Technical Committee on Communication and Information Communications Technology (STC-CICT-5) of the African Union is organized by the Department of Infrastructure and Energy (DIE) on November 23 at AU headquarters in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. It is preceded by an Experts’ Session on November 20-22. Under the theme “Accelerating digital transformation and advancing communication and advocacy in Africa,” STC-CICT-5 will deliberate on several issues, most notably the draft conceptual framework of the continental strategy on AI (in line with the objectives of the AU Working Group on AI, chaired by MCIT); the implementation plan of the AU Data Policy Framework (DPF) and self-capacity assessment tool; the implementation of the AU Interoperability Framework for Digital ID; Cybersecurity landscape in Africa: Assessment of gaps and priorities report; and the Digital Transformation Strategy: sectorial digital strategies (education, agriculture and health). Other topics on the agenda include improving the digitalization of postal services in Africa, the draft continental strategy on policy and regulatory environment for Africa's Digital Single Market, acceleration of program for infrastructure development in Africa ICT projects, and enhancing communication, advocacy, and understanding of the AU agenda. Learn More: Fifth Ordinary Session of AU STC-CICT https://au.int/en/stc https://lnkd.in/dxTruGn8 https://mcit.gov.eg

We appreciate having great partners as catalysts for change through projects like Project DIME (Digital Information Monitoring & Evaluation MVP). 🙌 Last December 2023, we facilitated a Design Thinking workshop for Philippines Department of Budget and Management wherein Civil Society Organizations like Gov Data initiative, Inc (GDI) participated in. GDI has actively engaged in DIME activities such as: 🔹PH-OGP National Action Planning Workshop: Co-designing Project DIME under the Open Government Partnership 🔹Project Design and Implementation Team Meetings: Collaborating with DBM and technology partner, Symph 🔹Design Thinking Workshop: Shaping the portal’s features and functionalities. We're hopeful for the future when we have great partners in the government and civil society advocating for good governance. 🤝 --- Learn more on how Project DIME will be changing the monitoring and participatory monitoring on infrastructure projects in the Philippines through this blog by Gov Data Initiative 👉 https://lnkd.in/gPkqdRgN #ProjectDIME #Transparency #OpenGov #GoodGovernance #Partnerships