Tonga Digital Government Support Project

The development objective of Digital Government Support Project for Tonga is to improve its capacity for digital public service delivery. This project has five components. 1) The first component, Enabling Environment and Continuous Improvement, has the following three subcomponents: (i) Development of a Digital (e-Government) Government Strategic Framework (DGSF); (ii) Legal and regulatory framework for Digital Government including Civil Registration and national ID systems; and (iii) Expansion of the Government’s Cyber Security Program. 2) The second component, Government Enterprise Architecture, has the following subcomponents: (i) Priority business process review; and (ii) Government Enterprise Architecture. 3) The third component, Core Registries : Civil Registration (CR) and National ID Systems, has the following subcomponents: (i) Upgrade of CR; (ii) Upgrade of ID System; and (iii) Development of CR-ID linkage. 4) The fourth component, Digital Government Infrastructure, has the following subcomponents: (i) Design of Secure Government Network and Data Center, Disaster Recovery/Business Continuity and Government Cloud (G-Cloud); (ii) Design and implementation of a National Government Portal; and (iii) Implementation of selected e-Services-Process automation. 5) The fifth component, Project Management, aims to finance a project management unit (PMU) at Ministry of Finance (MOF).