Delivering effective public services calls for multi-level transformation - changing the way public sector organizations think and act, how they view their roles, and how they share information between agencies, with businesses and with their customers.

E-procurement and e-payment has proven itself as one of the more effective and efficient tools for bringing good governance to the procurement process in many states, and e-procurement initiatives have received significant support from the donor community including the World Bank, the Asian development bank, the inter-American development bank and the African development bank.

Various initiatives have already taken place, spearheaded by different organizations to define best practices and strategies for the implementation and development of e-procurement and e-payment systems, and many countries have already introduced e-procurement into their business practices through various business models and approaches.

Topics covered on this course will include

• Procedures for implementing e-payment
• Legal Aspects
• Infrastructure
• Nature of money
• Institution
• Security
• Data, system and network
• Criminal
• Forgery and counterfeiting
• Computer misuse
• Fraud
• Electronic money laundering
• Consumer protection
• Data Protection and Privacy
• Electronic Money
• Digital representation of money or currency
• Digital cash
• Change of nature of money
• From physical substance to intangible
• Money is digits, numbers in a card/computer
• True like cash?
• Negotiable instrument?
• Regulatory challenges
• Monetary policy
• Control on the issuance of currencies
• Systemic risks
• Domino effects of the liability of the issuers
• Supervision
• Which body should supervise the issuance of e-money?
• Consumer Protection
• Stability and soundness of the EPS
• Definition of e-Procurement
• Advantages of e-procurement over manual procurement
  E-Procurement Tools
• E-Catalogues
• Internet Trading Exchange or e-marketplaces
• What is risk based Auditing
• Internal Control - Integrated Framework
• Characteristics of Monitoring
• Evaluating Deficiencies
• Monitoring Strategies