Santo Domingo. – The Government Office of Information and Communication Technologies (OGTIC) and the National Institute of Student Welfare (INABIE) committed to developing a series of actions for the use of new technologies with a view to strengthening the services offered by INABIE to students. members of the national public education system.
Pedro Quezada, director of the OGTIC, and Víctor Castro, executive director of INABIE signed an inter-institutional agreement on Monday in which they expressed the will of both institutions to deploy instruments, mechanisms and regulations that facilitate interoperability between systems of the Dominican State.
During the signing, Quezada thanked Víctor Castro and the INABIE team for agreeing to the agreement, as well as for the results that will derive from it, which will benefit the children of OGTIC employees, and stated that this agreement It fills him with great satisfaction, because he comes to the aid of the children.
Also, he said that in this process he learned that INABIE is much more than the delivery of school breakfast and that it is good that it is health for children from the age of five, because children are the future of the country.
“This agreement is transcendental for me because it goes beyond implementing information technologies, because what is the point of making large platforms if they are not going to impact or improve the quality of life of citizens,” he said.
He indicated that the OGTIC confirms its collaboration and cooperation in information and communication technologies between both institutions.
As for Castro, he described the moment of the signing of the agreement as a transcendence of life because wherever he has been he is committed to the digitization of processes.
He assured that when he arrived at INABIE he found various situations, but with the support of Pedro Quezada who has helped with information technology, he is sure that this institution will be a digitized service center, with supervision from the hand of technology. , which translates into greater well-being for children.
“We need the hand of technology to be able to be efficient in managing the resources we have in order to be able to efficiently impact the greater good that children are,” he said.
He added that the digitization of processes and the use of technology are increasingly necessary to improve administration in both the public and private sectors, that the Covid-19 pandemic brought the need for digital technologies and processes to continue operation.
The director of INABIE maintained that the country, through the OGTIC and other dependencies, is taking the necessary steps to achieve the objectives of the 2030 digital Agenda and “we as an institution do not want to remain in the conventional, we need to incorporate the efficient use of technology to be able to improve services because without a digital government there is no true transformation of public administration,” he said.
Agreements
With this commitment, OGTIC makes services available to INABIE such as hosting equipment with space in the cloud for data storage, as well as digital signatures, complying with the Zero Bureaucracy initiative of the Dominican Government, in addition to contributing to the reduction of use of paper as a contribution to the environment by electronically embodying signatures on official documents.
This accompaniment translates into a new step at the technological level, allowing INABIE to meet the necessary requirements in this area of the student welfare institution.
In addition, INABIE will be able to have services such as the Point GOB Face-to-Face Service Center (CAP), which would serve to promote the services in these offices, as well as the Citizen Telephone Service *462, which would guide people who require information on the programs.
In addition to this, the OGTIC also undertook to lead INABIE in the consultancy process for certification in Information and Communication Technology Standards (NORTIC), as well as IT technical advice, national and international statistics on the progress of digital government, among others.
INABIE will provide care to children of OGTIC employees
Within the plan, it is contemplated that INABIE provide care within the framework of its health programs to the sons and daughters of OGTIC employees who are of school age from 5 years old and up to pre-university and who study in the sector public.
These will receive care at the health days and at the headquarters of the student welfare institution with prior notice.
The agreement was held at the headquarters of the OGTIC, an institution in charge of assisting government institutions in identifying opportunities for the implementation of Information and Communication Technologies to improve the efficiency of the public function.
