Embrace technology - Segokgo

• Published date: 10 February 2023
• Publication title: Botswana Daily News

- Public employees should embrace the digital age and lead the nation in taking advantage of new technologies.

Minister of Communications, Knowledge and Technology, Mr Thulagano Segokgo said this at the ministry's annual retreat in Palapye on Tuesday.

Mr Segokgo said a technologydriven organisation such as his ministry must embrace change instead of running away from it.

'We are in a technology driven environment, which calls on us to be focused, futuristic and innovative in our leadership.

Let us adopt an employee friendly workplace and a change-ready mind-set,' he said.

Mr Segokgo said modern communication and information technologies allowed citizens to reclaim their public institutions by contributing to service design and in some cases taking charge of service delivery.

This, he said, was also pronounced clearly on Priority 3 of the RESET agenda digitilisation.

With digitalisation, he said, Botswana had the potential to transform into a better economy, and therefore encouraged employees to reset in order to reform mental modes.

The minister however, pointed out that the past years had been a rich period of experimentation in the public sector service delivery that aimed at making government more efficient, transparent and responsive.

'I want to believe that we have eliminated issues such as systems down, limited research output and low expenditure of our development budget allocation,' he said.

Minister Segokgo also highlighted some of the strides the country had made, such as the...