Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi told reporters today that government had commenced with work to create one public service to cover all spheres of government.
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Citizens of the Western Cape will, for the first time in their lives, be able to source government information and services, in the language of their choice. Internet surfers can access information and services in either, Xhosa, English or Afrikaans.
Sooful, who said the city already runs some of the "largest open source implementations around", said the Smart Cape Access project has 540 open source-based desktop machines in daily use. "Right now we have more than 40 000 users in the communities using these terminals. To those that say the open source desktop is not ready for wide usage we say 'we are already doing it'. There is no better proof than to see this number of people using an open source desktop."
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Nirvesh Sooful, Leiter der IT-Abteilung der Stadt, erläuterte anläßlich eines Seminars zu freier und Open-Source-Software die Position und die Ziele der Millionenstadt. Laut Sooful betreibt Kapstadt bereits heute eine der größten OSS-Implementierungen. So werden im Rahmen des »Smart Cape Access«-Projekts 540 Desktop-Rechner mit OSS betrieben. Mehr als 40.000 Benutzer in den Gemeinden nutzen diese Rechner. Sooful wandte sich an diejenigen, die die Praxistauglichkeit des Open-Source-Desktops bezweifeln, mit den Worten: »Wir verwenden ihn bereits.« Der beste Beweis dafür sei wohl die Anzahl der Leute, die die Rechner verwenden.
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The department, having already rolled out mobile units that make use of satellites to enable citizens in rural parts to apply for ID books, is now investigating a national fingerprint database.
Cabinet has given the idea of a national identification system that makes use of fingerprints stored in a database its 'in concept' approval.
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