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  • South Africa: Municipality‘s ICT platform for delivery now in place

    Three months since issuing a challenge to the ICT industry, acting municipal manager Vuyo Zitumane has what she sought – a framework to deliver a world-class, citywide information and communications technology platform.

    She called on vendors during the ICT Summit in April to lay aside their commercial interests to help Nelson Mandela Bay municipality develop and implement a strategy to bring it on par with leading cities.

  • South Africa: National broadband policy under the spotlight

    South African National Broadband Forum meets with Department of Communications over national broadband strategy

    The South African National Broadband Forum (SANBF) held a workshop earlier this year, focusing on the development of a framework for a national broadband strategy. The framework was released in April, focusing on various initiatives which will ensure that “all South Africans should have affordable broadband access to the Internet.”

  • South Africa: New e-Venus solution boosts local govt revenue, gives better servi

    In order to offer an affordable alternative to traditional ERP solutions, Comparex Africa, one of SA's leading providers of government ICT solutions, is making its enhanced Venus flagship offering, e-Venus, available to local government at 20% of the cost.

    The solution provides all the functionality (financials, salaries and human resources, document management and workflow, GIS, business intelligence, etc) of competitive 'total' ERP solutions.

  • South Africa: New govt should take fresh look at broadband policy framework

    High-speed Internet access for all South Africans was emphasised as a national priority by the South African National Broadband Forum (SANBF), which said that it would hand over a proposed broadband policy framework to the new Minister of Communications at the first sitting of Parliament after the elections.

    It was felt that the election of a new government provided an opportunity to consider the policy framework with a fresh approach.

  • South Africa: New life for e-government

    E-government will be renewed and handled with more vigour, because of its future importance to service delivery, says deputy public service and administration minister Roy Padayachie.

    He spoke to ITWeb after a Parliamentary media briefing by the governance and administration cluster of ministries.

    Padayachie said this new vigour and importance being accorded to e-government was in line with president Jacob Zuma's state of the nation address.

  • South Africa: Next-generation network plan expected to boost government ICT services

    The State Information Technology Agency (Sita), provider of communications services to government, is to roll out a project to implement a next-generation network (NGN).

    Providing the national backbone transmission services to support this NGN will be South Africa’s second national telecommunications operator, Neotel.

  • South Africa: No ambitious govt IT projects

    While government has increased its IT spend across most of its departments, its priorities are on modernising its systems and not the roll-out of any major broadband initiatives.

    Following several weeks of budget presentations to Parliament, ministers revealed their IT plans. While spending on IT projects increased across most departments, budget allocations focused on improving existing systems and processes. In what can be seen as an indication of economic conditions and failures in previous administrations, ministers did not announce any ambitious projects.

  • South Africa: No changes for Western Cape IT

    Despite declining revenue for expenditure, the Western Cape government says it will modernise its IT systems.

    There were no surprises for ICT in the Western Cape's medium-term budget, as the provincial government focuses its spending on modernising ICT systems and improving service delivery.

    While no ICT projects suffered declining budget allocations, none of the projects in the province received any additional allocations. The forecasted overall 2010 Medium-Term Expenditure Framework allocations increased by R5.8 million, but the R235 million allocated to ICT in the province, in June, would not be affected.

  • South Africa: No smart card IDs

    While the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) will push to complete its smart card ID project, an outstanding forensic audit and funding woes are likely to delay the process further.

    Last year, the Department of Home Affairs (DHA) announced it was looking to award the tender for its long-awaited smart ID card project within the current financial year. This followed the cancellation of the project in August 2009 and requests by the DHA to restart the tender process.

  • South Africa: North-West IT gets R80m

    The North-West provincial government has prioritised IT, but says skills shortages will need to be tackled to ensure the success of new initiatives.

    Speaking during her budget vote address this week, finance MEC Louisa Mabe said IT played a key role in the province's response to unfavourable economic conditions. She added that the aim is to restore stability in the lives of those who will be affected by the global economic downturn. The answer, she said, would be found through programmes and systems, which increase productivity and protect the most vulnerable in the province.

  • South Africa: Online state saves on queueing

    Spending the day standing in government queues will soon be a thing of the past.

    More and more government departments are embracing technology-based services in a bid to eliminate paper trails and queues, and cut down turnaround times. It also reduces costs.

    The department of home affairs has recently introduced a service where an SMS informs applicants of the progress of their documents.

  • South Africa: Open source support vital to enhance e-government initiatives

    Over the last year the South African government has increasingly advertised its intentions and efforts to become more technologically enabled, with the aim to improve its internal operations, its service levels, and its accessibility to its citizens. To date, open source software seems to be its chosen technology. Government needs, however, to ensure that its open source software implementations are appropriately maintained and supported if its technology efforts are to succeed.

  • South Africa: Public to Receive 24-Hour Access to Government Services

    South Africans this year stand to benefit from a government initiative that will see the public get 24-hour access to government services.

    According to Public Service and Administration Minister and Chairperson of the Governance and Administration Cluster, Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi, the e-Government Gateway project is one of the cluster's major projects for this year.

  • South Africa: Putting people first - electronic self-service options for citizens

    The South African government could vastly reduce its operating costs while improving service to its constituents, by introducing more electronic self-service options for citizens.

    Across industries such as banking and telecommunications, self-service is already the preferred channel for customer interaction, because of the convenience it offers consumers and the efficiencies it offers enterprises. It makes enormous sense for the public sector to follow their lead.

  • South Africa: R454m to upgrade govt network

    Government will invest R454-million to replace its single network with the Next Generation Network (NGN), Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said on Wednesday.

    "This project will give us the capacity to provide services in support of our E-government strategy," she said.

  • South Africa: Re-inventing the portal

    The Centre for e-Innovation (CeI) has called for expressions of interest for the redevelopment of the Cape Gateway portal and its associated content management system (CMS).

    The CeI, e-government component for the Western Cape, aims to improve the quality and efficiency of government service delivery and to increase public participation in government, by using Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs).

  • South Africa: Reduced wait for government documents

    Minister of Co-operative Government and Traditional Affairs Sicelo Shiceka says applying for government documents like ID's or services like grants will soon take 90 seconds and not three months as they currently do.

    Speaking from Belgium where he is talking to the European Union about it's e-government system, Shiceka says that the system would be implemented in South Africa within 14 months.

  • South Africa: Rural town gets WiMax

    The University of Fort Hare and Rhodes University have partnered with the Siyakhula community, in the Eastern Cape, to develop the first rural WiMax network to deliver wireless broadband services.

    The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) says the network has been vital in providing a platform for goods, music and produce to be sold online via an e-commerce Web site, while an e-government site provides the community members with access to services.

  • South Africa: SA is Making Progress On the Road to E-Government

    Last year's BMI-TechKnowledge report on IT in government shows that the South African government is spending between R8 billion and R10 billion a year on IT, despite negative trends in the global IT industry. The report also notes that an apparent lack of understanding is impeding the transition to e-government. But a local expert with ICT integrator Comparex Africa finds that SA is making progress, considering the huge challenges involved.

    "While SA faces the same challenges as most developing nations in implementing e-government, it has the added challenge of having to extend and improve services to previously neglected communities," says Thabiso Tenyane, general manager for the public sector in Comparex Africa.

  • South Africa: SAPO to provide schools with e-mail

    The South African Post Office (SAPO) plans to provide e-mail access to more than 100 Dinaledi schools across the country from next year.

    The post office says it was mandated by the Department of Communications and the initiative forms part of its plans to implement ICT in rural areas.

    “We were tasked by government to provide e-mail access to all South Africans,” says SAPO CEO Motshoanetsi Lefoka. “We see providing e-mail access to students in Dinaledi schools as an entry point into those communities that cannot be reached, because the children are the representatives of the community.”

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