THE HAGUE – Curaçao is attempting to accelerate long-delayed government digitalization reforms after authorities admitted that progress in information technology modernization has been insufficient over the past year.
According to the new Landspakket (reform package) implementation report, the Curaçao government has now approved the creation of a new Directorate for Information Provision and Digitalization, intended to centralize and modernize the island’s digital government infrastructure.
The report states that digitalization projects experienced “little progress” in recent periods, prompting renewed intervention by the Council of Ministers in February 2026.
The new directorate is expected to oversee major digital transformation projects across government, including digital workflows, portfolio management and modern IT governance.
One of the most important delayed projects involves the implementation of Microsoft 365 across government ministries.
Although pilot projects had already started earlier, the report acknowledges that insufficient progress was made and that concrete follow-up agreements still have not been finalized. Authorities now hope to complete the M365 rollout by early 2027, but warn that the timeline is at risk.
The reforms are also tied to the planned creation of a national digital identification system for government services.
An investigation into e-recognition systems similar to those used in the Netherlands remains dependent on the successful establishment of the new digitalization directorate.
Meanwhile, Curaçao is also modernizing its legal and statistical infrastructure.
The report states that approximately 650 consolidated legal regulations were updated and digitized following the constitutional changes of 10-10-10, with around 350 already published in the renewed electronic legal database.
Authorities are additionally working on improving the speed, accessibility and search functionality of the digital legal platform.
On the statistical side, Curaçao is strengthening cooperation with statistical agencies throughout the Dutch Caribbean through the Dutch Caribbean Statistical System (DCSS).
The modernization effort also includes plans for improved digital data-sharing between ministries and the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), allowing the government to better track education, healthcare and social development indicators.
The reforms are part of a broader effort to create what the report describes as a “future proof” public sector with more efficient internal and external services for citizens and businesses.