It’s now official that our Founder Ingrid Riley has been appointed to the board of the government’s Central Information Technology Office. The announcement was made last week Friday February 24th, 2012. Ingrid was called personally by Julian Robinson, Junior Minister of the Science, Technology, Energy and Mining ( S.T.E.M) and asked to serve.
CITO’s vision is to establishing a world-class national ICT sector that will foster Jamaica becoming the most developed knowledge-based society in the region.
It’s mission is to contribute to the increase of national wealth and the e-Powering of Jamaica by means of an effective National ICT Strategic Plan that will facilitate the development of an efficient and integrated public sector and national ICT environment, and increased capacity and capability of our people to leverage the opportunities that ICT gives rise to across the global economy.
CITO will also provide ICT standards and policy advice, ICT project support and egovernance leadership to the public sector through our competent staff working in a collaborative, communicative, facilitative, flexible, performance-driven manner to achieve our goals across the government and the nation.
“I look forward to working with my fellow directors and the CITO team in helping to revolutionise how we use and integrate ICT in government; how ICT can be integrated in key industries to make them more effective and profitable and how we can make ICT become integral in making Jamaica an innovative and ecomonic power player,” Riley said.
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