By Dorothy Musyoka
Interior Cabinet Secretary Professor Kithure Kindiki emphasized on the necessity of a strategic partnership between his ministry and the Ministry of Information, Communications, and Digital Economy to enhance the digitization of citizen services.
Speaking at Harambee House, Nairobi, the Interior CS thanked the Ministry of Information, Communications, and the Digital Economy for their vital support in safeguarding citizen data and the E-Citizen services portal, as well as in developing digital ID and other IT programs.
“Digitalisation and Digitisation of citizen services such as the National Population Register, the system for registration of births and deaths, registration of persons and mitigating cyber-based threats to the security of our homeland requires deliberate and constant collaboration between the two Ministries,” CS Kindiki indicated.
The interior CS held a routine review meeting on ongoing and planned collaborative and concurrent functions.
In attendance were Eliud Owalo, Cabinet Secretary for Information, Communications and the Digital Economy; and Principal Secretaries Amb. (Prof) Julius Bitok (Immigration and Citizen Services) and Eng. John Tanui (ICT and the Digital Economy).
In 2022, President William Ruto announced the digitization of all government services.
According to the president the move aimed to enhance service delivery to the public and make them more efficient.