The project aims to establish specific capacity building needs of government agencies and public officers to be able to effectively implement their IT strategies, government-wide programs such as Electronic Government, and technology-related Public Administration Reform initiatives. It also aims to contribute to public awareness and understanding of e-governance issues and how these issues relate to socio-economic and political benefits for Macao and the public at large.

The following objectives are proposed to realize the aim:

O1) Articulating specific training needs of government agencies and the government as a whole, through information gathering activities and feedback from e-Macao Technical Committee (TC) meetings and projects workshops;

O2) Inviting international scholars and government practitioners to present seminars on the issues related to Electronic Governance considering the Macao PA context;

O3) Designing and organizing courses and schools to train various levels of public officers - Agency Heads, IT Heads and IT Officers, on policy, strategic, organizational and technical aspects of specific topics related to the agencies and outcomes of e-Macao (e.g. deliverables of projects);

O4) Organizing workshops with project managers and other stakeholder to jointly review projects, contribute to problem solving and present results or finding to the stakeholders;

O5) Ensure the participation of public officers in selected government agencies, across secretary offices, in the 2009 edition of the ICEGOV conference to take place in Bogota, Colombia.

The following outputs will be produced by the project:

D1) Capacity Building Requirements and Roadmap for Electronic Government - A report to document findings form an online survey of Electronic Governance training needs of the government agencies in Macao;

D2) Seminars - A series of seminar presentations by international scholars, leading experts and government officials, for public officers and the public at large;

D3) Training - A school on strategic and organizational aspects of Electronic Governance, targeted at IT managers and CIO-level officers. The school ill include courses on Enterprise Architecture, Information Sharing, Knowledge Management and Identity Management;

D4) Workshop - At least one workshop to discuss important issues emerging from the recently concluded Macao SAR ICT Strategy and Strategic Alignment projects, part of 2008 portfolio, organized for the Secretaries, Directors or Heads of agencies. In most cases, workshop sessions will be devoted to reviewing the progress of 2009 projects;

D5) Conference - A number of public officers from Macao will be supported to attend the ICEGOV 2009 conference in Bogota, Colombia.