Digital Cabo Verde Project

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The proposed Additional Financing for the Digital Cabo Verde Project is articulated around the following three components: Component 1: Enabling Legal and Regulatory Environment (US$0.65 million equivalent).This component is being scaled up to expand the parent project activities with the objective of further strengthening the legal and regulatory environment to boost the development of the country’s digital economy. The AF will provide additional financing to enhance the legal framework for the government digital transformation and the implementation of emerging technologies benefiting agencies like ARME and MMEAP, as well as to continue with the strengthening of NOSi’s institutional capacity, all necessary for enabling the development of the Government Single Portal. The following activities will be scaled up under the following subcomponents:Subcomponent 1.1: Foundational and forward-looking ICT policies and regulations (US$0.5 million equivalent)i. Legal Framework Digital Transformation. The objective of scaling-up this activity is to further strengthen the legal framework for the government’s digital transformation. This activity will finance just in time legal assistance to support the development, update and implementation of the legal and regulatory framework needed for the continuous digital transformation of the government, focusing on areas like the regulation of the Administrative Modernization law. ii. Capacity Strengthening for ARME (Agencia de Regulação Multissectorial da Economia/Multisectoral Regulatory Agency). The objective of this activity is scale up support towards ARME’s capacity to design and implement legal and regulatory frameworks. Building on the activities of the Parent Project, the AF will expand the technical assistance and training in priority areas such as digital transactions and on the telecommunications side, the AF will scale up support to developing legal framework and implementation of infrastructure sharing. This work was initiated under the parent project through market analysis . iii. Strategic and legal framework for emerging technologies. The objective of this activity is to support the formulation, adoption, and implementation of a robust strategic and legal framework for emerging technologies. This activity will finance support for the design and implementation of a strategy for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and other emerging technologies and its implementation to improve government efficiency and services (i.e., proactive services). Subcomponent 1.3: Improved institutional structure and capacity (US$0.15 equivalent). Capacity Strengthening for NOSi. The objective of this activity is to scale up support to NOSi’s key role in the implementation of digital transformation projects across the government. This activity will continue financing NOSi’s support for the implementation of digital transformation projects in the GCV. Component 2: Digital Competitiveness (US$2.5 million equivalent). This component is being scaled up to expand the activities to support the Government’s efforts to strengthen key enablers of a dynamic digital economy with a focus on connectivity. Subcomponent 2.1: Digital connectivity for education. Expanded Digital Connectivity. The objective of this activity is to provide additional financing for the improvement of internet access and increase bandwidth in schools and other government entities to enable the access to and the use of online education platforms and digital public services. This activity will expand the connectivity provided (currently to high schools only) under the Parent Project, and specifically it will finance: (i) technical assistance to conduct a feasibility study, including a digital vulnerable groups gap assessment, including women, in the districts where the schools with expanded connectivity are located , and prepare bidding documents to purchase additional broadband capacity for new schools and other government entities; and (ii) to purchase of international bandwidth in the market that will be delivered by existing operators to additional schools and government entities. Component 3: Digital Public Services and Marketplace (US$16 million equivalent). This component is being scaled up to support the Government’s major objective of digitizing 60 percent of all government services by 2026, as well as centralizing the delivery of services through a single government portal for digital public services, building on the achievements of the Parent Project through the Consular Portal. a. Strengthening of Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) (US$2 million equivalent). The objective of this activity is to provide additional financing to strengthening the country’s DPI to enable and facilitate the delivery of additional end-to-end digital services. This activity will finance: (i) strengthening Cabo Verde’s existing Interoperability framework and government digital business architecture (PDEX ); (ii) enhancing the current digital identity and authentication frameworks (Chave Movel Digital ); (iii) expanding the present government cloud ; and (iv) implementing a robust digital payment’s platform, including digitalization and strengthening of the treasury. b. Digitalization of Public Services and Single Government Portal (US$14 million equivalent). The objective of this activity is to finalize establishment of the portal and scale up the digitalization of services. Activity will increase the government efforts to digitalize more public services and facilitate the access to them by citizens and businesses through a single window . This activity will finance: (i) strengthening of the Digital Services Team, in charge of implementing the Single Government Portal; (ii) the development of guidelines and directives for the homogenization of digital architecture across the government; (iii) digitalization of public records; (iv) business processes reengineering, enhancement of user experience (UX) and digitalization of the prioritized government services on the digital services team action plan; (v) development of the Single Government Portal; (vi) implementation of communications and change management activities for government employees, citizens and businesses focused on digital transformation and the use of digital services; (vii) strengthening of digital inclusion through the implementation of initiatives like a digital ambassadors program to support businesses and citizens in the adoption and use of digital services, and the development of multilingual content; and (viii) design and implementation of data analytics, including gender-disaggregated data, and digital services user’s satisfaction evaluations for the continuous improvement of the service delivery and user experience. This activity will also include the digitalization of prioritized back-office processes and systems , including:i. Integrated Human Resources Management Information System (HRMIS). The objective of this activity is to support the government in the development and implementation of an integrated Human Resources Management System that can effectively interoperate with other government systems and efficiently perform all HR functions. This activity will finance: (i) the consolidation and improvement of the civil servants’ database, eliminating potential inconsistencies on the MMEAP (Ministerio da Modernização do Estado e da Administração Publica/Ministry of State Modernization and Public Administration) database; (ii) the digitalization of HR records; (iii) equipment for government entities to support the rollout of the HMIS; (iii) design and roll out of the HMIS; and (iv) communications and change management activities to support the implementation and use of the system by public sector employees. ii. Tax Administration System. The objective of this activity is to continue supporting the digital transformation of one of Cabo Verde’s economy key agencies, the DNRE (Direção Nacional das Receitas de E