Following the report to grips with ICT from the Temporary Committee on IT in 2014 should go all the ministers

The Ministry of Economy believes that the ICT Implementation Service (Dictu) too has grown rapidly. Therefore, exercising restraint over the next two years, with further growth in customers and commission package. In addition, EZ proves yet ever faced with complex IT environments and outdated software. This writes Minister Henk Kamp in his Second Letter to information on policy priorities and ICT in the ministry.

Following the report to grips with ICT from the Temporary Committee on IT in 2014 should go all the ministers on the developments in their department related to the recommendations of the committee. Minister Kamp does this now in his letter to parliament on policy priorities in the ICT field in his department.

The minister is under more reflect on the role of Dictu, the ICT service provider for the primary business at EZ. The ICT executive is also designated as shared service organization 'for specific business processes such as inspections, grants and registers. So make various inspections and services outside the Ministry of Economic Affairs also use the ICT services Dictu.

Through this expanded remit Dictu has grown strongly in recent years, both in number of customers and number of employees. The IT department is also another process of renewal of the technical infrastructure, in which a cloud environment is set up. Camp does not say it in so many words, but all the activities are Dictu become too much .

So a line was last year put a runaway tender for a government-wide business system and the executive struggling to settle well in the insourcing of desktop management. The contract with the current outsourcing partner , Capgemini was therefore mid-2016 extended for a further two years.

Camp cites these examples, but notes that "Dictu needs time to absorb the growth in recent years. Therefore, exercising restraint over the next two years, with further growth in customers and commission package. "

Deprecated
In his letter shows that the IT management of EZ are still experiencing the effects of the merger in October 2010 of the Ministry of Agriculture, Nature and Food Quality (LNV) and the then Ministry of Economic Affairs. As in business were the ICT systems of both ministries are harmonized into a new ICT policy landscape and all employees receive the same workplace environment. "The modernization of it is delayed that reason," writes Camp.

He further claims that arise through successive mergers in the implementing organizations, notably with the National Entrepreneurial Netherlands (RVO.nl) and the Dutch Food and Goods Authority (NVWA), complex ICT landscape. "Remediation of this is a complicated process that is still ongoing. The organizational changes appear in the ICT field to have an operation result that takes several years and has made a considerable burden on the available human resources and IT budgets. "

Innovation
But there is also an eye for innovation. So Camp points out that in the field of digital services that support entrepreneurs and citizens in their dealings with the government, Ministry of Economic Affairs is working on the construction of the so-called Generic Digital Infrastructure (GDI) and provisions from the eDienstverlening program in the Execution (EDU). In existing facilities, the ministry wants more consistency by developing it to my Government for Entrepreneurs'. Additionally RVO.nl working on an improved support for digital customer contacts.

Other renovation projects are the Joint Task for the Common Agricultural Policy, which farmers digital information to provide the government, Range Radiocommunications Agency program (the digital offering the products and services of the Agency) of the Central Bureau Observing program Statistics (new method for gathering data) and the renewal of the Trade Register of the Chamber of Commerce.