Thank you, Madam Chair. I will try to keep this as plain-language as I can, but please push me if you need to. The role of the chief information officer really sets the strategic direction for what we refer to as the information and technology sector across the Government of the Northwest Territories. While I do not have a line responsibility over all aspects of the information and technology sector, I have a dotted-line relationship to all of them, and they all report back through my office and through the division of governance, planning, and security around strategic planning, policy development, and things like that.
They also fall under our umbrella from a cybersecurity perspective and the development of standards and practices that span across the sector. The biggest operational entity within the ISSS is the application services division. That division is responsible for developing websites, managing our digital presence, building databases and business applications to support the program areas of the government. That is different than the role of the technology service centre and corporate information management, which are in infrastructure.
The technology service centre is responsible for what we refer to as the core infrastructure, so servers, storage, network, desktops, and laptops, things of that nature. Corporate information management is really the records management and information branch for the Government of the Northwest Territories, as the Member mentioned, responsible for the implementation of the digital integrated information management system or DIIMS, along with the broader records policy framework within the Government of the Northwest Territories. I hope that helps. Thank you, Madam Chair.