Yesterday we told you about the CEO caucus training on Microsoft Office 365. It was held at the Central Information Technology Office in Belmopan. Now, that training is only one of the many functions and responsibilities of the office. They are the government's IT arm. So while you may think that it's just a bunch of techy guys or computer geeks in those offices – they play a crucial role for the government. Acting Director Francisco Gonzalez told us more.
Francisco Gonzalez - Acting Director, CITO
"I know this building was built in conjunction with help from the Taiwanese Government. When it was built it was only a two story building and then when we took it over and when we joined with what was then the National ICT Center we build on top of it, we expanded the server room and we built a third floor, which explains why it is now a three story building. With that we also inherited new responsibilities for E-governance."
"CITO is basically government's IT arm especially when it comes to implementing e-government and all of its projects and what not, we also manage the PFM systems which are the Public Finance and Management systems so that is pretty much in a nutshell what we do here at CITO and we are also working on three big projects which I am sure you have heard of National ID, a payment gateway so you can pay for any service online and a government portal so citizens can have access to all of these services at their fingertips mobile at home on a computer so forth."
There are about 6 departments with different responsibilities including tax administration, app development among others.
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