VITARA - Information Technology and Data Management
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Bibliographic details
- Session: OL 24.11
- Location: Course conducted online
- Dates: November 19, 2024 - December 10, 2024 (3 weeks)
- Delivery method: Online Training
- Primary language: English
- Status: Deadline passed
Overview
- Training Program: VITARA - Information Technology and Data Management (VITARA-ITD)
- Session No.: OL 24.11
- Deadline: Deadline passed
- Location: Course conducted online
- Date: November 19, 2024 - December 10, 2024 (3 weeks) New dates
- Delivery Method: Online Training
- Primary Language: English
Qualifications and Access
- Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential.
Target Audience
- This module equips heads of tax administrations and their executive leadership teams with essential information technology and data management concepts and tools.
- Other tax administration staff with an interest in the subject matter may also find the module useful.
Course Description
- The module opens by explaining how information technology (IT) can help achieve a tax administration's goals and the role of executives in managing and overseeing IT resources.
- The module highlights the evolution of IT from a back-office function to a strategic driver of reforms and modernization.
- Among other concepts, it explores digital transformation and the automation of an integrated business process model.
- The module provides tools for integrating IT into reform planning and prioritizing IT investments, and includes broad overviews of contemporary IT operations, governance arrangements, and management practices.
- Building from insights into IT, the module explains how to understand, manage, and use data to improve tax administration performance.
- The module closes with an overview of information security.
Course Objectives
- Explain why IT is important in tax administration and how it can help to achieve goals.
- Recognize practical concepts and tools to help shape IT strategies and deliver reforms.
- Identify modern digital principles and important features of digital tax administration.
- Define aspects of tax administration IT governance and key IT management practices.
- Recognize the importance of data in tax administration and data management practices.
- Describe information security concepts, typical challenges, and mitigation measures.
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