Public Sector Workers To Be Barred From Using Private Emails For Work In 2023 | Social

From 2023, public sector staff will probably be barred from utilizing personal emails for official work.

The official platform they're anticipated to make use of for government emails will probably be overseen by the National Information Technology Agency.

Speaking in Accra, the Minister of Communication and Digitalisation, Ursula Owusu-Ekuful, urged government companies to liaise with the company to ensure they're positioned on the platform.

Mrs. Owusu-Ekuful stated this coverage will make sure the continuity of state data and mitigate cases of exposing state data to cyberattacks.

She charged the general public sector CEOs to tighten buildings to guard government data within the discharge of duties and famous that the objective is to make sure “that official information stays within the official domain.”

“In other countries, you could lose your job for not using your official email because it compromises the security of the entire system. It destroys institutional memory. It makes government information available everywhere in the world.”

Mrs. Owusu-Ekuful can be involved that government enterprise might fall into the fallacious arms.

“Somebody somewhere is using that information that has been provided on those supposedly free platforms and doing all kinds of things with our data which we don't know about.”

The minister was talking on the expertise Breakfast assembly organized to sensitize Public Chief Executives on leveraging on government's digitalization drive.