Embracing digitalisation turning point

Public servants in Tsabong have been called upon to be torchbearers of the new government’s vision by embracing digitalisation and demonstrating financial intelligence. Permanent Secretary to the President (PSP), Ms Emma Peloetletse, said this during a high-level engagement with the public servants in Tsabong on Monday. The meeting aimed to brief employees on national policies and gather crucial feedback from the frontline public services.

Under the inspiring theme: The District of Unique Opportunities, Ms Peloetletse urged the public servants to embrace digitalisation of the workforce. “Let us embrace digitalisation. It should be utilised,” she declared, emphasising the critical shift away from outdated practices.

She further highlighted manual processes as inefficient, lacking an audit trail, and consuming valuable time and underscored the government’s commitment to modernising service delivery. The Permanent Secretary to the President also touched on issues around national economic policies and updated public servants about the National Development Plan 12 and the Botswana Economic Transformation Programme, along with the status of the national economy. The dire economic situation, she relayed, demanded that individual workers reinforce individual responsibility in fiscal management.

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However, the session was not without candid feedback from the public servants themselves. Several pressing issues, such as staff shortages and overstaying, formed part of the impending issues the workforce was grappling with. Public servants also pleaded with the government to address the dilapidated accommodation as well as the acute shortage of staff housing to ensure their well-being was taken care of.

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