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4.8. DACNET

Department of Agriculture and Cooperation (DAC) Ministry of Agriculture launched a project called DACNET to take the benefit of information technology in services that it provides and improving its governance. DACNET has proved very useful in reducing the processing time for certain services provided by the department from more than one year earlier to less than three

months. DACNET's key criteria included ease-of-use, speed of information delivery, low incidence of errors, reduction in corruption, and affordable services.