Lubasi Musambo | Talks | Humanities | Automation of the Social Cash Transfer Programme in Zambia
Channel: Lighton Phiri
Date: 2022-10-17

Lubasi Musambo gave a talk titled "ZISPIS: Automation of the Social Cash Transfer Programme in Zambia" on Monday, October 17, 2022, at 14H00 GMT+2. 

This talk is part of a series of seminars organised as part of the "MSP 5012: Social Protection Management Information Systems" [1] postgraduate course in the Department of Social Work and Sociology [2] at The University of Zambia [3].

There is a separate recording for the Q& A session [4]

## Video Timeline
00:00:00 Logistics
00:03:06 Speaker Introduction
00:06:00 About My Work
00:06:21 Presentation Outline
00:07:33 SCT Mind-Map
00:16:15 SCT Enumeration Mind-Map
00:19:12 ZISPIS Mind-Map
00:25:08 ZISPIS Modules
00:29:29 ZISPIS Security Posture
00:33:17 Potential Ecosystem
00:34:48 System Legality and Roll-Out
00:36:52 Potential Impact
00:37:53 Q&A Session

## Title of Talk
Automation of the Social Cash Transfer Programme

## Biography
Lubasi Musambo [5, 6] holds a Master of Engineering in ICT Security from The University of Zambia under the school of Engineering. He also holds a Bachelor of Science with Honors from the University of Hertfordshire. Further to these, he also has an Advanced Diploma in Business Information Systems awarded by the Association of Business Executives. Some of his other certificates include a Certificate in Professional Computing and Information Process and a Certificate in Network Fundamentals and Network Security. Lubasi is the MIS Technical Advisor in the Department of Social Welfare
performing systems automation for the department and has been a princple officer at the Ministry of Community Development and Social Services (MCDSS) in charge of the MCDSS SCT MIS (Social Cash Transfer Management
Information System). This is a comprehensive database of all beneficiaries classified by household who are deemed the most vulnerable in the Republic of Zambia.

Lubasi has been instrumental in the management and implementation of the Social Cash Transfer (SCT), the Zambian version of the social protection programme by management of key Information Systems (ISs) that hold SCT datasets by installation and maintenance of the SCT MIS across all the 116 districts. He has been instrumental in the development of the Technical MCDSS SCT MIS Systems Development Specification Document to be used in the conversion of the Batch-processing based MCDSS SCT MIS into a cloud based MIS. Lubasi holds a patent in Zambia for a Frontal-facial recognition model. Lubasi is keen on improving social protection innovations in Zambia by automation as he sees automation as a strategic driver to Social Protection.

Lubasi is married with 2 children.

[1] https://unza.zm/schools/humanities/departments/social-work
[2] https://unza.zm/schools/humanities/departments/social-work
[3] https://www.unza.zm 
[4] https://youtu.be/iFMeQUctNWU
[5] https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=X3tYkGQAAAAJ&hl=en
[6] https://www.linkedin.com/in/lubasi-k-musambo-05417b8b