Ministro da Administração Estatal e Função Pública, Inocêncio Impissa, fala a imprensa moçambicana, à margem da Cimeira Mundial de Governos na Cimeira Mundial de Governos, em Dubai
Maputo, 11 June (AIM) – The Mozambican Minister of State Administration, Inocêncio Impissa, has announced that the country’s ambition to digitize public archives requires qualified personnel and proper organization of physical documents.
According to the minister, speaking during a working visit to Archives of the northern province of Nampula, several public institutions are facing difficulties in ensuring document management and the transition to electronic systems as a result of shortage of specialized personnel.
Impissa explained that the modernization of public services depends directly on the quality of physical archives.
“Archives are essential. The success of the digital archive we intend to build depends on the physical archive. If the physical documents are not organized and complete, the digital archive simply does not happen,” he said.
According to the minister, digitization does not replace traditional documentation, but represents an extension of the work already carried out in conventional archives. “In fact, it is about transposing what exists in physical format to digital. Therefore, the organization of archives is an indispensable condition for advancing in this modernization process,” he said.
For his part, Cachimo Raul, the Provincial Director of Justice and Labor in Nampula, training process is underway involving employees from the province’s registry offices, in partnership with the Provincial Statistics Delegation, with the aim of strengthening skills in entering documents into electronic platforms.
“We are working on training our colleagues in all the registry offices in the province of Nampula to ensure the correct entry of documents into the electronic system. This is a fundamental step to preserve information and avoid the loss of institutional memory”, he said.
He added that technical teams are also deployed in the districts to accelerate the digitization process of existing records.
Impissa welcomed the ongoing efforts in the province of Nampula and guaranteed the Government’s commitment to continue with initiatives that strengthen document management and the preservation of the country’s collective memory.
Nampula Civil Registry Office currently holds historical documents produced since 1930, constituting one of the most important repositories of administrative and patrimonial information in the northern region.
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