The formal organization for computing started in 1967 with the creation of Treasury Computer Bureau (TCB) in the Ministry of Finance. TCB became a separate department in 1972 when it moved to it premises on Fourth Street.

TCB was set up as a centralized Government Computer Centre to provide a centralized resource to Government for processing the civil service payroll, Government accounts and other administrative systems such as taxes, pensions, and social welfare, Government Medical Stores, Central Mechanical Equipment Department and Parirenyatwa Group of Hospital Creditor’s system.

In 1982, the Government set up the Scientific Training Centre (SCC) in order to encourage and expand the use of IT in Government. The purpose of SCC was to provide an on-line centralized computing facility to government with a special mandate to concentrate on scientific type application. The main applications were Central Statistical Systems, National Registration and the Voter’s Roll. Other smaller applications were roads, water development, surveying, veterinary research, agriculture, energy, mines, geological survey, forest research, national parks and biometrics.

In 1986 SSC and TCB were amalgamated to form Central Computing Services (CCS).
CCS has a two-fold role:-

• To provide a central computer facility to Government departments and relevant trading accounts.
• To coordinate and monitor all information technology activities in Government.

To fulfill its role CCS runs centralized systems for major applications in Government, the major ones being Civil Service Payroll, Public Funds Management System(PFMS),Pensions, Social Welfare,Taxes,Hospital Billing System and Government Medical Stores.