Cameroon: Administrative Information - ENAM Trains Military Officers

What is information? How should it be processed? At what point should we consider information perishable? These are some of the worries officers in the Ministry of Defence will seek answers to, during a five-day training that opened in Yaounde on February 4 at the National School of Administration and Magistracy (ENAM).

The multitude of documents manipulated in society and the number of actors in the management of information denatures its value and influences decision making. The Director General of ENAM, Linus Toussaint Mendjana, enjoined participants to take advantage and benefit from expertise so as to impact their ministry which has an insatiable quest for the effective implementation of its road map. Good management of information is an undeniable resource for the success of the Ministry of Defence, Mendjana stressed. Cognisant of the fact that poor management of information can lead to irreparable consequences to a nation, and given the fact that road maps need proper follow-up, participants in the training are acquiring skills on how to harmonise mechanisms on information management.

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