Project Name：Somaliland E-government Capability Enhancement Project

Project status：Completed projects

Cooperating Country：Africa, Somaliland

Project Description：

The Ministry of ICT of Somaliland unveiled the Somaliland e-Government Strategy 2020-2024 Action Plan, a government digitalization implementation guideline which requires many external resources for initiation. Government institutions in Somaliland currently work individually with limited information exchange. People have to visit multiple departments to take care of business and the service quality is unsatisfactory. Furthermore, data exchange among government institutions requires lengthy phone calls or communication. This system puts the overall operation under the risk of low efficiency, data mishandling, poor management, and tracking difficulties. As a result, cooperation among government institutions is challenging.

This project echoes the 16th and 17th UN Sustainable Development Goals through establishment of channels for the government to be transparent and disperse information to the general public, while also enhancing the government digitization and e-governance capability. The main content of the project is to enhance Somaliland's e-government capability through establishing a data exchange platform among government institutions, capacity building and institutional strengthening, and improving government network management.

Implementation Start Date：2021-04-01

Implementation End Date：2023-12-31

Project Objectives：The project aims to enhance the e-governance of the Somaliland government, including improving the efficiency of intragovernmental data exchange by building a data exchange platform, establishing a national ICT center as a hub for ICT capacity building, and assisting to improve the management of government networks.

Executing Agency：

Taiwan Technical Mission in Somaliland / Ministry of Information and Communication Technology of Somaliland 

Current Progress：

By the end of December 2023, the following activities are being implemented:

1. Complete the development and deployment of an intragovernmental data exchange platform, aka S-Road, and hold several extended workshops and training programs among Somaliland government agencies.

2. Conduct 52 ICT training programs which benefit more than 1,096 participants from government employees and citizens, in which minorities such as women, the hearing impaired and IDPs were included.

3. Organize business proposal competition and provide incubation services thru technical guidance and facility support.

Project Contact：Chen, Chao-Yeh

Phone：+886-2-28732323 ext.6053

E-mail：c.y.chen@icdf.org.tw

Mission：Taiwan Technical Mission in the Republic of Somaliland