{
  "title": "VITARA - Information Technology and Data Management",
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  "summary": "VITARA - Information Technology and Data Management Training Program Qualifications Access to a computer with a reliable Internet connection and a Google Chrome web browser is essential.",
  "publishDate": "2026-02-24",
  "sections": [
    {
      "heading": "Target audience",
      "content": "- Heads of tax administrations and their executive leadership teams.\n- Other tax administration staff with an interest in the subject matter."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course description — scope and structure",
      "content": "- Explains how information technology (IT) can help achieve a tax administration's goals and the role of executives in managing and overseeing IT resources.\n- Highlights the evolution of IT from a back-office function to a strategic driver of reforms and modernization.\n- Explores digital transformation and the automation of an integrated business process model.\n- Provides tools for integrating IT into reform planning and prioritizing IT investments.\n- Includes broad overviews of contemporary IT operations, governance arrangements, and management practices.\n- Builds from IT insights to explain how to understand, manage, and use data to improve tax administration performance.\n- Closes with an overview of information security."
    },
    {
      "heading": "Course objectives — expected competencies on completion",
      "content": "- Explain why IT is important in tax administration and how it can help to achieve goals.\n- Recognize practical concepts and tools to help shape IT strategies and deliver reforms.\n- Identify modern digital principles and important features of digital tax administration.\n- Define aspects of tax administration IT governance and key IT management practices.\n- Recognize the importance of data in tax administration and data management practices.\n- Describe information security concepts, typical challenges, and mitigation measures."
    }
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    "Heads of tax administrations and their executive leadership teams.",
    "Other tax administration staff with an interest in the subject matter.",
    "Explains how information technology (IT) can help achieve a tax administration's goals and the role of executives in managing and overseeing IT resources.",
    "Highlights the evolution of IT from a back-office function to a strategic driver of reforms and modernization.",
    "Explores digital transformation and the automation of an integrated business process model.",
    "Provides tools for integrating IT into reform planning and prioritizing IT investments.",
    "Includes broad overviews of contemporary IT operations, governance arrangements, and management practices.",
    "Builds from IT insights to explain how to understand, manage, and use data to improve tax administration performance.",
    "Closes with an overview of information security.",
    "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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