Data Scientist at Ministry of ICT and Innovation: (Deadline 28 January 2022)

Data Scientist at Ministry of ICT and Innovation: (Deadline 28 January 2022)

Job description

 Shall undertake putting up enabling policies, standards, technology tools, to support the sectors and entire economy with right capabilities for data collection, data storage, data curation and analysis ;

 Shall be in charge of building predictive models and algorithms, analyzes both structured and un-structured data to address efficiency challenges in work processes within sectors, deriving useful insights for projects under implementation within Government or private sector;

 Conduct research to understand the trends in science and technology space, data economy collaborating with relevant local and regional stakeholders to harness the opportunities related to new projects, tools, partnerships, ensuring the data ecosystem is strengthened;

 Be in charge with several other activities as will be assigned by the Ministry line supervisors.
 Coordinate the development and disseminating ICT & Innovation policies, strategies, standards, legal and regulatory frameworks related to data protection & sovereignty at both local and international level;

 Collaboration and liaising with local, regional and international partners working in the sector for mutual cooperation in the area of data economy and enabling framework to allow data to flow across boarders for business or diplomatic opportunities;

 Identify opportunities, business & project models, innovational approaches to promote sovereignty and cross boarder data flow programs;

 Facilitate to support specific projects related to promoting cloud hosting services for both Government and Private sector, approaches for API development, building data provenance, hushing mechanisms and operator anti-snooping;

 Conduct research on current and future data economy trends and derive policy actions/models to promote data sovereignty and cross boarder data flows;

 Monitoring and evaluating the implementation of ICT & Innovation sector and sub-sector policies, strategies and programs;
 Be in charge with several other activities as will be assigned by the Ministry line supervisors.