ICT Department

1. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE DEPARTMENT (OUR HISTORY)

The Parliamentary Information and Communication Technology Department for Members’ Service was established in 2011 as enshrined in the Parliamentary Service Act, 2007, Part II section 13 subsection 1 & 2 respectively and also due to the recommendations of the joint Information & Communication Technology (ICT) needs assessment report coordinated by UNDP country Office in Sierra Leone, IPU and the Global Centre for ICT in Parliaments in 2011. The team was mandated to assess and analyse the status of ICT in the Parliament of Sierra Leone. Amongst their recommendations was for the establishment of an ICT department rather than out sourcing ICT services and also further supported by the Parliament Act, 2023, Part IV, section 28 subsection 1 (m). This led to the establishment of the ICT Unit in 2011 and the Parliamentary service Commission recruited ICT Manager, two ICT Officers responsible for Hardware and Networking; Webmaster, responsible for the development and maintenance of the Parliament website.

In 2014 during the quarterly meetings of the Parliamentary Service Commission (PSC), the commission upgraded the ICT Unit to a Department due to its’ hard-work, expansion of their functions and their tremendous achievements in areas such as development of Parliament website and official email services, LAN installation to the two buildings etc. The ICT Department continues to thrive as a strategically placed Department for effective and efficient management of parliamentary information from that period to 17th December, 2018 when it was amalgamated to the Information and Research Service Department as ICT Unit.

In January, 2022 during the realignment and restructuring process of departments and staff, the ICT unit was upgraded to a department. The department has 17 male staff, Master’s holders, degree holders and It has 4 units in operation and they are functional which are:
1. Hardware and Electronics unit
2. Software and Systems development unit
3. Networking and security systems unit and
4. Multimedia systems unit

The focus of the Department is to:
1. To transform Parliament into an automated work environment that will support the core functions of Parliament (e-Parliament solution)
2. Bringing Parliament closer to the people by providing dedicated interactive systems that will give citizens the opportunity to participate in the legislative and representational process in a real-time.

2. WHO WE ARE & WHY DO WE EXIST?

We are a technological department that is strategically placed to transform Parliament into an e-Parliament system from a paper based to a paperless operation and to foster enhanced real-time citizens’ participation in the representational and Legislative process through dedicated interactive multimedia systems and to provide reliable ICT Systems that will support the core functions of Parliament. We aspire to Make Parliament Open, Transparent, Accessible and Accountable through the use of Information and Communication Technology.

3. GUIDING PRINCIPLES

Timeliness:
We believe that the timely delivery of Parliamentary Information to Members, staff and the general public will give them easy access to parliamentary documents that will enhance the core functions of Parliament.

Efficiency and Effectiveness:
We believe that efficiency and effectiveness in parliamentary business can be fully actualized with the use of Information Technology and we are providing the necessary systems to achieve that goal.

Citizens Participation:
We believe that citizens’ voice can help make a better legislation; in this drive we will give citizens’ the digital platform to interact on a realtime to the representational and legislative processes and procedures.

Paperless Operation:
We believe in the transformation of Parliamentary functions to a paperless system wherein Members and staff will get information on time, it saves energy, it saves money by lowering the consumption of toners, papers and electricity and saves time considerable.

4. OUR SERVICES

Timeliness:
Our core mandate is to transform Parliament into an automated work environment by providing and facilitating the use of technology and information resources to attain best practices in service delivery that will support the core functions Parliament. And to enhance the efficient and effective performance of Members and staff through the use of ICT Services

The function of the ICT Department is to develop, managed and enhances Parliament ICT systems and Services.

1. To maintenance, managed, control and sustained the life span of hardware equipment to its expected depreciated value period and to install Operating systems, Microsoft Office, ios, android apps, hardware drivers and to configure the necessary hardware patches.
2. To undertake full scale maintenance and management of hardware and electronics devices in Parliament and to conduct regularly repairs and maintenance in a weekly/monthly and quarterly basis
3. To effectively and efficiently managed, monitors, maintained, protect and prevent the Parliament network from hackers, crackers, malware and cyberattacks/cybercrimes and to ensure that users use the network appropriately and not to resolve in misuse of the system.
4. To efficiently and effectively developed, analyses, managed, maintained and operate the existing softwares and to project for regularly upgrade of the system.
5. To provide effective and robust multimedia services and realtime operations of those systems and to managed data transactions.

5. WHO WE SERVE ?

 Members of Parliament (149)
 Staff of Parliament
 Guest/Consultants/Donor Partners
 MDA’s and
 The general public

6. FEEDBACK AND RESPONSES

For feedback and responses you can contact us on the following: info@parliament.gov.sl

7. DEPARTMENTAL ORGANOGRAM

ICT DEPARTMENTAL ORGANOGRAM

CONTACT INFORMATION

NAME	DESIGNATION	PHONE	EMAIL
Joseph Conteh	Director	+23276817501	jconteh@parliament.gov.sl
Ing. Ernest Nersta Gborie	Deputy Director	+23276990677	en.gborie@parliament.gov.sl
Alhaji Amadu Sesay	Senior ICT Officer (Webmaster)	+23299675255	a.sesay@parliament.gov.sl
Victor Bainga Kamara	Senior ICT Officer	+23278992203	v.kamara@parliament.gov.sl
Francis Foday	SeniorICT Officer	+23279586820	francis.foday@parliament.gov.sl
Francis Bayoh	Senior ICT Officer	+23279151505
Sam Kangaju Brima	ICT Officer	+23299885713
Harry Barlay	ICT Technician	+23276784644
Sallu G. Kamara	ICT Technician	+23288477738
Louis Kamara	ICT Technician	+23234770988
Artumani A.O. Jah	Asst. ICT Technician	+23234046411
Amara Kailondo	ICT Technician	+23279485492
Abdul Karim Jalloh	ICT Technician	+23276934955

PST. JOSEPH CONTEH - DIRECTOR OF I.C.T DEPARTMENT: 2015 – Present
MSc. Public Administration (USL)
MSc. Computer Science (NU)
BSc. Computer Science (NU)
B.TH. Theology (USL)
DIP. Accounting & Finance (ICM)
Over 13 years wealth of experience in Information and Communication Technology spanning through the core functions of technologies, which are Hardware, Software, Liveware, Multimedia, CCTV systems, Biometrics systems and a niche on e-Parliament systems.

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