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  • South Africa: Government online strategy to be for the people by the people

    The South African government has defined and is in the process of applying its eStrategy or plan of action to establish and leverage off online presence as part of its service delivery mandate.

    According to local online experts competition for business in this area of the market remains high and there is opportunity for the proactive, reliable and fully resourced outfit.

    One such expert, Howard Rybko, CEO, Syncrony, Gauteng-based provider of web design and content management services, says the time is ripe for the right type of provider to differentiate themselves.

  • South Africa: Government vows to meet digital-TV deadline

    Digital TV will be a success, and timelines for the project will be met.

    That is the word from the communications department, which is in charge of making sure that the big switch from analogue to digital broadcasting happens by 2011.

    “There are no signs to suggest that we will not be ready by 2011. One of our goals is to speed up uptake and use of information and communications technologies (ICTs) among South Africans,” department spokesman Joe Makhafola said.

  • South Africa: Govt admits BEEs not delivering

    Government is falling short of its target of allocating 30% of its national IT spend to black economic empowerment (BEE) companies. This was revealed by Mojalefa Moseki, CIO for the State IT Agency (SITA), who was speaking last night at a First Tuesday presentation on e-government.

  • South Africa: Govt ICT spend to increase to R8bn by 2010/11

    BMI-TechKnowledge, a local ICT market analyst, has announced the publication of its latest report entitled: ’ICT in National Government’, which reveals that the total ICT spend of national government will increase from approximately R6bn in 2005/06 to R8bn in 2010/11 at a CAGR of 2,9%.

    Lesley-Anne Dos Santos, IT research analyst, and co-author of the report, states that the government is one of the main users of technology in this country. There are major demands placed on government for service delivery, and therefore BMI-T expects that this trend will continue as the effect of ICT on overall service delivery is proven.

  • South Africa: Govt must be ICT-enabled

    Even with an increase in annual ICT budgets, government's service delivery record still remains poor, said Thabo Johnson, executive manager of NEC Phillips for GijimaAst.

    The goal is to create a government that is ICT-enabled and knowledge driven, but its failure to effectively decide on what is really relevant for it has kept its systems slow, he noted.

  • South Africa: Govt refreshes Thusong Centres

    An “ICT Blueprint”, to improve connectivity at Thusong Centres, has been developed by the Office of Government CIOs, while Sentech will have a collaborative role, says public service and administration minister Geraldine Fraser-Moloketi.

    Thusong Centres, formerly multi-purpose community centres, are locations, mainly in rural areas, designed to allow people to have access to government information and services. Some 1 227 centres have been established nationally and Fraser-Moloketi says connectivity will be extended to 50 centres in the coming year.

  • South Africa: Govt sees ‘tremendous potential’ for broadband growth

    With only 2% of South African Internet connections being provided by broadband technologies, the creation of a broadband policy for the country was “critical”, Communications Deputy Minister Dina Pule said on Wednesday.

    A draft Broadband Policy had already been drawn up.

    Speaking at the opening of the Broadband Policy colloquium, in Midrand, Pule highlighted that there was still “tremendous potential” for growth in broadband penetration in South Africa, adding this presented both challenges and opportunities for the developing country.

  • South Africa: Govt to accelerate gateway project

    Government will speed up the process to set up a government-wide call centre this year, president Thabo Mbeki said in his state of the nation address in Cape Town this morning.

  • South Africa: Govt to Reduce Communication Service Costs

    Communications Minister Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri says government aims to reduce the cost of communications, in order minimise the number of landline-disconnections due to non-payment.

    Addressing the National Assembly during her department's budget vote Thursday, the minister said government also aimed to ensure continued access to emergency services during the period of disconnection.

    This, she said, was part of government's universal service agenda.

  • South Africa: Govt updates e-strategy

    Public service and administration minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi has outlined the next steps in the e-government strategy. These include an interactive community relationships portal, and providing community development workers with cellular phones and mobile Internet access.

    She spoke yesterday during the media briefing for the public service cluster of ministries, which includes her department and those of Home Affairs and provincial and local government.

  • South Africa: Govt, unions seek broader talks on Single Public Service

    Municipal workers unions and government have agreed that the scope of public consultations on legislation for the Single Public Service, be broadened to the National Economic, Development and Labour Council (NEDLAC).

    This follows the unions meeting with Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, to broaden social dialogue on this issue.

  • South Africa: Govt's ICT budget is burgeoning

    Provincial and local governments are allocating increasing substantial budgets to ICT. However, analysts doubt they have the capacity to spend the bounty.

    A new report by BMI-TechKnowledge says provincial and local government spent over R5.6 billion on ICT last year, and will spend R6.4 billion by 2011 – and that excludes local government capital expenditure (capex).

    IDC senior analyst Pieter Kok adds that all three tiers of government have ageing infrastructure that needs “refresh”, as well as greater integration and consolidation.

  • South Africa: Home Affairs Minister Takes Services to Farm Workers

    Home Affairs Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula is set to visit farming communities around Hermanus in the Western Cape on Tuesday bring services closer to the people and discuss issues affecting them.

    According to the Department of Home Affairs, the minister's intervention is geared to allow her to hear farm-workers' first-hand experiences on challenges they face in accessing Home Affairs services.

  • South Africa: Home Affairs Services Available Via SMS

    The days of travelling long distances to Home Affairs offices to check progress on Identity Documents and passport applications are over, as one can now check this via short message service (SMS).

    Many South Africans had to spend money on transport to visit the nearest offices of the Department of Home Affairs to check on their documents, but now they can do so on their cellular phones.

  • South Africa: Huge ICT projects in pipeline for 2008

    It could be a bumper year for IT projects, with tenders worth billions in the pipeline over the next few months.

    GijimaAst is expected to sign a R2 billion business process management contract with the Department of Home Affairs next month. The National Treasury should be set to issue a series of contracts worth roughly the same as part of its government-wide integrated financial management system (IFMS) project.

  • South Africa: ICT centre gets R8m boost

    Korea's Ministry of Public Administration and Security and the SA Department of Communications (DOC) have agreed to establish an ICT Co-operation Centre (ICTCC) in SA.

    A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) signed by the two governments would formalise the Korean government's commitment to contribute R8 million over the next three years towards the establishment of the ITCC, said Professor Ndawonde, a journalist with the DOC.

  • South Africa: ICT is the mainframe of a better life for all

    Service delivery calls for a re-engineering of the way the public sector and private enterprise do business.

    The trick is to balance profit and results.

    Anyone who has spent hours waiting in a queue in a government building can appreciate the difference that technology could make to their lives.

  • South Africa: ICT must fund innovation

    Department of Science and Technology (DST) director-general Phil Mjwara called on the ICT industry to support innovation by dipping into its collective wallet.

    Mjwara said government realises information and telecommunications technology are essential agents in generating economic growth “and, therefore, creating jobs, fostering social development and improving the quality of life”.

  • South Africa: ICTs Key to Service Delivery, Economic Growth

    Information Communication Technologies (ICTs) have been identified as key to service delivery and one of the essential factors in promoting economic growth in the South African economy.

    The National Government Research Report, identifying various key trends in South Africa's ICT development, was released on Tuesday at a media briefing in Johannesburg by ForgeAhead, a leading ICT Research and Consulting House.

  • South Africa: ID Track And Trace System to Improve Service Delivery

    The ID Track and Trace system is one of the Department of Home Affairs' major achievements, Minister Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula said Tuesday.

    Speaking at a Governance and Administration Cluster briefing, the minister said not only did the system cut queues, it also helped detect corruption, managed performance of managers and helped citizens to check progress in the processing of the ID books.

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