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Contact: Embassy of Taiwan
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 – A team of three consultants and a team of
three system development technicians from the Republic of China (Taiwan) on the
e-Government projects are currently visiting Saint Lucia to conduct meetings
with government officials and technical counterparts to review the performance
of Phase I of the Advance Transport Licensing Authority System or “ATLAS” and
the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force System with the Ministry of Communications,
Works, Transport and Public Utilities, and the Royal Saint Lucia Police Force
respectively. Meanwhile, they are scheduled to meet with their counterparts to
explore essential requirements for Phase II as well. These are solid proofs of
the joint efforts by the two governments to deepen and broaden cooperation
projects on e-Government.
Following the National ICT Centre being open to the public in downtown Castries
on 2nd February, 2009, the record indicates that 2389 participants have showed
up in its 461 workshops, meetings and functions. Then Prime Minister Stephenson
King unveiled plans for the establishment of a vehicle license system during the
presentation of the national budget for 2009-2010 last April. Subsequently a
Memorandum on e-Government Cooperation was signed by the International
Cooperation and Development Fund (TaiwanICDF) with the government of Saint Lucia
in May 2009. Notably the Ministry of Communications, Works, Transport and Public
Utilities officially launched the ATLAS project on 19th October 2009 to replace
an obsolete system used to document and regulate automobiles and issuing driving
license. Up to mid-November, more than 616 drivers’ data had been keyed in, and
over 300 new driving licenses had been issued by the Ministry.
The Royal Saint Lucia Police Force System is scheduled to be launched in January
2010 and it is expected more than 800 active users will be on line. In order to
provide necessary training, 263 police officers have participated in 22
workshops and 10 on the site trainings were conducted at major police stations
in the past few months. A computerized police force surely will ensure to
provide a more efficient and standardized management service to the general
public.
In addition, two new scopes of cooperation have already been identified jointly
by the two governments, and to date a lot have been accomplished in the
following respects:
Agriculture Resource System: (1) provision of a raw data input interface for the
following areas: (i) import and export crop information from the existing custom
system; (ii) domestic crop information from farmers; (iii) local purchase
information from hotels, supermarkets, and the central market; (2) provision of
an aggregate reporting function for further statistical purposes; (3) migration
of existing Access reports into a new application and provision of five
additional reports as requested by the Ministry of Agriculture; (4) provision of
eight handheld terminals for use by field officers, in order to collect live
produce information from farmers and local buyers; (5) performance of a one-time
data migration from existing Access data files into the new system.
Civil Status Registry System: (1) provision of an application to issue new birth
certificates, including adoption and deed poll; (2) provision of a one-time
migration of 10,000 records from the existing database into the new system —
including the generation of exception files when data is not in the proper
format, and an additional manual adjustable interface allowing officers to
process unformatted records; (3) provision of functions and flow for
registration, billing, and printing in paper format.
A Letter of Confirmation will be signed on Wednesday, 18th November by
representatives of both governments to ensure the above-mentioned tasks have
been satisfactorily implemented.
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