Digitalization System for Research Funds Selection at Secretariat ot the Development Fund of Timor-Leste’s Human Capital

The Technical Secretariat of the Human Capital Development Fund (FDCH) Timor-Leste, has a mission to contribute to the development of Timor-Leste's human resources in strategic areas of development, through financing multi-year training programs and projects, including existing programs objective to increase training for Timorese professionals. To achieve the objectives of FDCH, especially to promote transparency and accountability through the system, which can facilitate the creation of quick reports for the implementation of programs and training projects, it is necessary to implement the concept of a digitalization system. Digitalization has been identified as the main trend in transforming society and business by adopting digital technology into the organization and its operations. The objective of this research is to create and implement a digitalization system for the selection of research funds in the Technical Secretariat of the Human Capital Development Fund, Timor-Leste. The methodology for the development of this digitalization system will use Agile Software Development (ASD). System development utilizes Codeigniter 4.0 programming language and MySQL Database version 8.0. The results of this research show that the use of a digitalization system can manage research fund data, storage, archive, monitoring, and reporting research fund data through digital platform automation.