Thank you, Madam Chair. With respect to the digital aspects of our GNWT human resource systems, we have been moving in that way for some time. We have PeopleSoft, which is our main human resource management system, and we, in the last couple of years, have added some additional modules to that. One of them was eRecruit, which is now used for all staffing actions in the Northwest Territories and has proven to be quite effective.
In this capital plan what we’re proposing is putting in our ePerformance module into PeopleSoft, and it’s kind of the perfect time to do it, because we are updating PeopleSoft in ’12-13 and it fits as sort of
the perfect time to bring in ePerformance as well. We’ll have the staff on site to do the upgrade of the PeopleSoft and they’ll be able to do the ePerformance as well.
ePerformance is kind of an interesting module. Right now all our performance management is done by paper. It’s all tracked on paper and it’s really hard when you’ve got as many departments as we do and as many staff, to ensure that we’re getting the performance appraisals in on a regular basis and tracking them. This ePerformance module will give us that capacity to provide greater statistics, greater monitoring and greater use, which will benefit our employees in the long run.
You also mentioned manuals. We’re not getting rid of manuals. We’re still going to have policies and procedures that we have to follow and utilize in the Government of the Northwest Territories. We may print less copies. We’ll be able to display more of them on-line than we currently do. All of them we’ll be able to put on-line, so we’ll probably get away with a little less paper, which I think is good for the environment, good for the department and good for the people.
With respect to reliablity and data security, I’ll pass that on to Ms. Bassi-Kellett to provide you a little bit of information on the reliability and security that we do employ within the department on our data.