The Principal Secretary of the State Department for Culture, Heritage, and the Arts Umir Bashir has said that digitisation of records is essential to the economy.
The PS said that the move to digitise government services has led to increased efficiency, easier collaboration and enhanced accessibility of government services.
He added that digitisation, as an enabler, has contributed immensely to improvement in e-government services, e-commerce, entrepreneurship and digital skills.
PS Bashir said the digitisation of government services plays a key role in the growth of the economy and improved living standards.
"Investment in digital superhighway and the creative economy continues to enable the government to achieve the objectives of Bottom Up Transformation Agenda (BETA) through increased productivity and competitiveness,” she said.
PS Bashir spoke during the Kenya Association of Records Managers and Archivists (KAMRA) Heads of Records Management Breakfast Meeting in Nairobi.
On his part, the Kenya Association of Records Managers and Management Archivists (KARMA) Chairman Cleophas Ambira said that modernised records management was an essential ingredient to economic development and job creation.
"Digitisation of records increases efficiency, leads to cost reduction, allows greater flexibility and improves service delivery in both private and public sectors," he said.
Ambira said that well-managed records could be used to assess the impact of numerous programmes.
It, therefore, reduces redundancies, saving costs and sharing knowledge within and across organisations.
KARMA manages records which include accurate documentation of core activities and managing and storage of records for timely and accurate retrieval as well as ensuring that records are stored in secure environments.
The association also fosters and promotes education, research, training and invention in records and archives management through partnering with public and private institutions.
In April, President William Ruto said that his administration is 80 per cent done onboarding government services on digital platforms.
Ruto said that he is happy with the progress his administration has made so far.
The President said his government made a deliberate decision that technology will form the core of Kenya's transformation and that it is coming to pass.
"As a country, we made a very conscious decision that technology is going to inform the way we transform our country. We set out in the last one and a half years to put all government services on digital platforms," Ruto said.
"I am very happy that we are 80 per cent on the way to making sure that all government services are on the digital platform," the President added.