Government moves on Portugal’s digital transformation…
The government has announced the creation of the country’s Council for Digital in Public Administration.
What this appears to mean is that we are getting closer to a National Digital Strategy and sectorial reform (see below).
The Council will now have 100 days to draft a proposal for this strategy and its respective action plan.
Also known as CDAP, the council will work under the authority of the government member responsible for modernisation, writes Lusa, with a mandate ending on December 31, 2028 (by which time all its objectives should have been achieved).
The government statement on CDAP/ its objectives etc. all point to a strategy to take the country into the kind of digital future that ensures improved “efficiency, standardisation, coordination and simplification of services provided by Public Administration”.
CDAP consists of a Strategic Committee, an Operational Committee, and an Advisory Council – and perhaps the most notable feature of all these entities is that they will “not be remunerated for their functions”, according to the Council of Ministers resolution 94/2024 published today in Diário da República, which comes into force tomorrow.
Regaring the national strategy, Portugal was told that it had one in 2021; it also had an action plan, which involved the total investment of €643 million.
A Council of Ministers resolution in 2021 laid out the national strategy, saying it aimed to make Public Administration “more adaptable and responsive to the expectations of citizens and businesses and to contribute to a more efficient, intelligent and transparent operation of services”.
The millions of euros invested in this plan came from Brussels’ PRR (Plan for Recovery and Resilience).
Source material: LUSA
