- Based on the strategic plan launched by the Network for Digital Transformation in Lebanon at the Parliament of Lebanon in July 2019, the Network has repeatedly expressed its willingness to cooperate productively and provide everything necessary to transform the governmental and parliamentary sessions into interactive digital sessions and e-cabinet sessions, considering the delicate security protection and taking into account the confidentiality, server installation, archiving, etc..
- Undertaking these steps towards digital governance is in line with what the Lebanese governments have repeatedly announced about their intention to approve the national strategy for digital transformation. But the disease may have turned into the drug in the Lebanese administration leading them to make the necessary steps toward the approval of the national digital transformation strategy proposed by the office of the Ministry of State for Administrative Development, that the network welcomes to review some of its details. It is also necessary to accelerate the approval of the implementing decrees for the Right to Information Law and the E-Transactions Law, which were approved in the Parliament in 2017 and 2018, respectively..
- Therefore, the Digital Transformation Network in Lebanon and all Lebanese citizens are waiting for the steps that the Lebanese government shall take during this golden age of digital transformation to build a digital governance that combines digital democracy (based on the principles of participation, accountability, and transparency) and digital government (based on remote services in all sectors that facilitate the life of citizens, save them efforts, money, and time, and avoid burdens on public finances..
On the other hand, the network illustrates the challenges faced by the government in this regard, and we list them as follows:
- First - the telecommunications infrastructure, especially the Internet, by the ease of access, cost fairness, and qualit..
- Second - Continuous power cuts.
- Third - Security and privacy, and facing threats of breach of privacy and data security..
- Fourth - Social inclusion through the ability of all citizens to interact with digital technology across the skills gap between the digital generation and the traditional generation..
- Fifth - Resisting change, especially in public administrations due to inability or inefficiency, or because it limits corruption
