The Task Team from the World Bank initiates the dialogue with the National Centre for Information Technology. The team consisting of the Co-Task Team led by Mr. Jerome Bezzina, the Senior Digital Development Specialist and Co-Task Team leader and Ms. Anna Metz, Digital Development Specialist, met with the management team of NCIT. The NCIT team was led by the Minister of State for Homeland Security and Technology, Dr. Mohamed Kinaanath, with Mr. Hussain Mohamed (IT Manager, IT Infrastructure), Mr. Hany Nasir (Senior Software Developer), Ibrahim Abdul Rasheed (GDS Specialist) and Ali Shah Adam (GDS Specialist).

This is the first mission of the team, after the new administration took over. Hence, major focus of the mission is to align the project with the new Government’s digital goals particularly NCITs objectives and how the D’MADD can further assist the new development. The NCIT team expressed their visions and recommended their requirement and support they needed from the D’MADD project including some changes to the subcomponents to cater for the name. It was agreed to assign key focal point from the NCIT to work closely with the D’MADD PMU.

The Task Team invited NCIT management to join the Digital Summit of World Bank to be held from 5th March 2024. Digital leaders from South Asian Countries will be participating in the summit and will open further collaboration and opportunities for the NCIT in areas such as Digital Trust, Data Protection, Climate Change.

Ms. Shama Ahmed, Mr. Ahmed Haleem and Ms. Fathimath Shafa participated from the D’MADD team lead by the Project Manager Dr. Ibrahim Waheed.