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  • South Africa: Broadband roll-out too slow

    Government is not doing enough to speed up the roll-out of e-government services, says eThekwini Municipality head of geographic information systems and city strategy Jacqui Subban.

    Subban, who will speak at this year's eGovernment Conference, hosted by ITWeb, says there is no collective country strategy for the roll-out of broadband services, and the government has placed too much on the private to deliver these capabilities.

  • South Africa: Broadcast Digital Upgrade Will Boost Jobs And Skills

    Upgrading the national broadcasting infrastructure from analogue to digital at a likely cost of R2bn is an opportunity to create more hi-tech jobs, boost IT skills and invigorate local television and radio production studios, government believes.

    A network overhaul driven by the international phasing out of analogue technology is not a costly evil but a chance to spread wealth and skills around the country, says the communications department's deputy director-general of policy development, Harold Wesso.

  • South Africa: Cabinet Notes Progress in Public Service Restructuring

    The recent mid-year Cabinet Lekgotla has noted good progress in the implementation of Resolution 7, the restructuring plan for the Public Service.

    Speaking in Pretoria this morning, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said the majority of Government departments had completed their internal matching and placing processes and the inter-departmental processes were proceeding well.

  • South Africa: Call for Feedback On Info Gateway

    Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi has called on South Africans to comment on the newly-launched Batho Pele Gateway Portal.

    The first phase of the portal was launched this morning in Johannesburg.

  • South Africa: Calls to prioritise broadband

    In a run up to its convention later this month, the National Broadband Forum (NBF) has released a draft framework for a national broadband strategy.

    The draft framework was jointly developed by the Association for Progressive Communications, the Southern African NGO Network and the Shuttleworth Foundation.

    The forum states its goal is to provide affordable broadband access to the Internet for all South Africans. This will only be achieved once fibre and wireless broadband infrastructure are maximised, it notes.

  • South Africa: Cape Residents to Get Free Internet Access

    Capetonians who do not own computers or who cannot afford internet café fees can now access both, free of charge, through the City of Cape Town's expanded Smart Cape Access Project.

    A public access point was opened Wednesday in the foyer of the 44 Wale Street building.

    Five computers have been installed which can be used by anyone for up to forty-five minutes per day.

  • South Africa: Cipro aims to lead e-govt

    The Companies and Intellectual Property Registration Office's (Cipro's) e-government efforts will set an example of how a government department can turn around and provide beneficial services to citizens, it says.

    Speaking yesterday at the GovTech conference, in Durban, Cipro CIO Michael Twum-Darko said the office will demonstrate true e-government by transforming its processes.

  • South Africa: Citizens win with interop standard

    The Shuttleworth Foundation is hailing the publication of the Minimum Interoperability Standard (MIOS) for Information Systems in Government as a “big deal” for ordinary citizens.

    “It is a big deal because it uses open standards instead of a vendor's specifications, so it is much more inclusive,” says the foundation's intellectual property fellow Andrew Rens.

    “Open standards are important for e-government. In e-government, the State interacts with citizens through ICT, which can make interaction efficient for citizens and government. Section 32 of the Bill of Rights places a duty on government to make information accessible to citizens,” Rens adds.

  • South Africa: City of Cape Town launches Smart Access Truck

    The City of Cape Town, which recently celebrated the success of its Smart Cape Access Project, has now launched the Smart Cape Access Truck – a pilot project designed to bring connectivity to those marginalised areas that do not currently have Internet access.

    According to Mymoena Sharif, the Manager of E-Governance for the City of Cape Town, the Smart Cape Access Project was designed to give communities access to the Internet and has reached a significant milestone with approximately 60 000 people receiving free internet access in nearly 100 public libraries around the city.

  • South Africa: City wins award for its integrative IT systems

    The City of Cape Town won the prestigious e-Government award at the annual Africa Information and Communication Technology (ICT) awards in Gauteng over the weekend.

    Cape Town beat other hopefuls as the government department with the best ICT practices in the country.

  • South Africa: City's new IT system is a bold solution to the challenges of the..

    In response to William Davy's article (Big bang installation of city's IT system is dangerous approach, September 10), the City of Cape Town is of the firm opinion that its ERP programme is a bold but well-considered approach.

    Davy, who was last a contractor to the city over two years ago, examines the ERP project as an information technology project and misses the point that it is in fact a transformation project to integrate seven organisations with more than 28 000 staff, a budget of more than R10 billion, and which serves 3.2 million residents.

  • South Africa: Country Must Develop ICT Skills - E-Skills Council

    South Africa's Information Communication Technology (ICT) needs have to be addressed in order to further development and service delivery, according to the e-Skills Council.

    "The focus should not only be on skills in the current period, but also skills that will be required in the future, including e-skills related to all aspects of life such as the arts and those required by the public sector to improve service delivery," said the Department of Communications, Monday.

  • South Africa: Customer-centric approach crucial in e-gov

    If e-government is to serve its purpose in SA, e-government services have to be customer-focused above everything else. However, this crucial point is often overlooked, according to Moses Mtimunye, chief of strategic services at Sita.

    Speaking at the two-day ITWeb eGovernment conference at Emperor's Palace, Mtimunye said the challenge to realise the full potential of e-government, aligned with the circumstances and priorities of the country, will not be met until understanding and responding to the needs of citizens is made the top priority.

  • South Africa: Democratic Alliance questions Gauteng Shared Services Centre inaction

    The Gauteng Shared Services Centre (GSSC) was supposed to establish a job centre at Soweto's Maponya Mall, but has failed to do so, due to a lack of “computer infrastructure”, says the Democratic Alliance (DA).

    The opposition party says the GSSC's annual report shows the provincial government is failing the unemployed. To address the situation, the centre was mandated to establish job centres in Fox Street, in Johannesburg, and at Maponya Mall.

    “The one in Fox Street has been operating for some time; however, I was shocked to discover that the Maponya Mall one is still not yet up and running due to a lack of computer infrastructure. This is an appalling performance from a department that spends over R1 billion a year,” says DA spokesperson for Gauteng finance Mike Moriarty.

  • South Africa: Department of Communications 'walk the walk'

    In stark contrast to government's recent low-key focus on ICT, the Department of Communications (DOC) yesterday unveiled a forum tasked with building an inclusive information society and knowledge economy in SA, which will work towards bridging the digital divide.

    In a bid to meet the country's World Summit on Information Society (WSIS) commitments, the Information Society and Development (ISAD) Multi-Stakeholder Forum aims to bring together representatives of government, labour, business and civil society.

  • South Africa: Department of Communications wants to expand IT industry

    The department's focus will shift from using ICT in development, to development of ICT.

    The Department of Communications' (DOC's) newly released strategic plan will place a focus on building up small business in the ICT sector.

    The plan marks a shift of mindset for the department that has traditionally supported the idea of using the industry to develop others. Speaking during an interview with ITWeb, director-general Mamodupi Mohlala said the department wants to enable small IT businesses to flourish.

  • South Africa: Department of Public Service and Administration renews e-govt promises

    The Department of Public Service and Administration (DPSA) will press on with efforts to move 100 services online by 2014.

    Despite previous announcements by the department on plans to provide services to citizens via electronic platforms, recent comments indicate progress has been slow.

    Deputy minister Roy Padayachie said the department aimed to develop a prototype to e-enable six online services to benefit the poor. These include ID applications, birth registrations, foster care grants, pension applications, maintenance, and notification of death.

  • South Africa: Deploy ICTs to Deliver Services

    The South African E-government Learning Network workshop was held recently in Pretoria to learn about Legislative framework that governs ICT, Framework gap analysis, Feedback on the implementation of the frameworks and the way-forward for ICTs in South Africa.

    "We are here to learn and understand ICT legislation, to improve service delivery and ensure compliance" said Lufuno Raliphana, director at the Department of Public Service and Administration.

  • South Africa: Develop And Implement ICT Policy - Experts

    "They should develop and implement comprehensive ICT policies that include technology to cater for ICT, telecommunications, television, radio and the economy," said Dr. Jyrki Pulkkinen of the Department of Development Policy in Finland.

    "The policies should target eradication of poverty by creating employment opportunities while in the social political arena they should result into democracy, gender equality and evironmental protection," he told a plenary session on Exploring the Future of E-government: Knowledge Engineering for Results at the Kuala Lumpur Convention Centre.

  • South Africa: Digital Migration to Improve Service Delivery

    The Department of Communications' digital migration process will improve service delivery and further e-governance, says Director General in the department Lyndall Shope-Mafole.

    Presenting key areas of Cabinet-approved Broadcasting Digital Migration (BDM) Policy, the Director General said the digital migration process and the introduction of the Set-Top-Boxes (STB) will improve the capacity of government to deliver services to the people.

    The BDM is a process of converting the broadcast of television broadcasting signals from analogue to digital technology.

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