IT Sector in Mozambique: Marisa Balas Shares her Vision for the Future of EXI

Marisa Balas, Director of Operations at EXI, shares her vision for the future of the company in the medium term.

“It’s like being a parent. You see your children being born and somehow you prepare them to start walking, then talking. That’s the way we see our projects. We believe that over the past five years, we have been helping our projects to learn how to walk and talk. It is time they now start running. We wish all of these applications start producing data so that the Government can indeed make decisions based on accurate and up to date information. We want to be in a position that we need to simply maintain these solutions, while doing other things to evolve them to other stages of information requirements. These solutions are up and running and they’re producing information the country needs, which is where we want to be in three years’ time”, says Marisa Balas.

“One of the major challenges we have in Mozambique is that too many solutions are brought into the country and implemented, but then they are simply substituted by new ones after a year, because a new institution or donor enters the scene. This doesn’t produce results. As such, if we can have a very steady and lasting solution that produces information and allows the country to breathe in, and this information is disseminated in the right way, thus allowing the right decisions to be made based on this information, then I believe we will have reached the place where we want to be – as opposed to changing things around and doing things differently every day. I believe, therefore, that what we need is a ‘stability momentum’, which would then allow us to focus on the new things that need to be done”, she adds.

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