GREAT BAY (GIS):--- The Prime Minister Sarah Wescot-Williams signs a financing agreement with the Dutch funding agency USONA for the digitalizing archive for the Census Office.
Present was the Dutch Representative in St. Maarten Lars Walrave, representing the Dutch Ministry of Interior and Kingdom Relations.
This project is part of the Institutional Strengthening and Reinforcement of Government Administration program.
The goal of this program is to strengthen the overall execution of the processes within the Census Office by means of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).
This particular project is to digitalize the archives of the Census Office.
The archives play an important part when it comes to the research of the clients and their ancestry.
When the archives are digitalized the research process will be shortened because the information can be easily retrieved.
The next step is to join this archive with the census office system (PIVA).
The staff members can then access the archive information from their workplace, situated in front or back office.
Within this project, the staff of the Census office will receive the training needed to use this system.
The total amount of the financial agreement is Naf. 450,000 Antillean Guilders.
The duration of the project is two years.