A cheque written on one branch of a commercial bank takes four working days to clear at another branch of the same bank. Cheques between two different banks take longer.
Digital identity is not chiefly a technology problem. It is a trust problem expressed through technology.
Fragmented storage was not a security feature. It was a vulnerability. The databases had been safe only by virtue of being useless to each other.
Digital Public Infrastructure is the most important thing you've (probably) never heard of
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The expertise and learnings from building India’s digital stack did not remain in India.
“Many organizations are collecting data, but few are converting it into action.”
The plan to pursue “electronic data access in all police vehicles,” only works if there is an efficient capture process for relevant information, a secure system for storing data and a robust data encryption regime for transmitting it.
What made online pundits so effective in the US election?
Tax collection began using the least customer-friendly interface imaginable, lines outside a government building.
“This strategy recognizes that robust collaboration, particularly between the public and private sectors, is essential to securing cyberspace.”
The developers will compete to deliver a viable proof of concept solution for five different challenges and each selected development team received a $50,000 award to proceed with their work.
e-Tender is presently the most used e-Procurement platform deployed across Trinidad and Tobago.
There was little expectation of job satisfaction in the public service, and advancement was measured in decades but the civil service was a lifelong career.
What became of the money budgeted for e-government and FinTech over the last three years? Are we starting everything over because there’s now a digital transformation ministry?
In September 2020, Colm Imbert partially reversed a tax regime imposed in January 2016, soon after he took office.
“It’s important to match strategic planning to training, working out where you want to go and then designing the training that gets the workforce there.” – Bhushan Sethi, PwC.

