The Information and Communication Technologies road map aims to identify opportunities and support industries and in particular SMMEs
Small, medium and micro-enterprises (SMMEs) will be the major beneficiaries of government’s ambitious ICT road map that seeks to digitise most public services.
South Africa’s telecoms and postal services minister Siyabonga Cwele has called on the public to provide written input on the ICT roadmap, following approval by Cabinet to gazette the national e-strategy, e-government and ICT SMME support strategies.
The telecoms department said in a statement that the strategies are aimed at leveraging technology to modernise service delivery and make the ICT sector more inclusive.
South Africa’s new Smart ID card is one of the most advanced IDs in the world, said the solutions director of LAWtrust, Maeson Maherry.
Maherry, who was speaking at a cybersecurity symposium in Johannesburg, is overseeing the seven-year eID project with the Department of Home Affairs. It is one of LAWtrust’s largest programmes.
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This may sound like an idealistic thought, but data-driven policies are having a real-world impact in several countries.
A sad reality of this hyper-partisan, politicised era is that many policy proposals are immediately identified as either “left-wing” or “right-wing” and lauded and derided by partisans as if by rote, with little room for discussion about soundness or impact. But there is an alternative that could help us get past this political divisiveness: using data to help us focus on the policies and investments that would have the biggest positive impact on society.
‘We will work with the e-government department to further refine and improve the online application system.’
The Gauteng department of education will continue to use the online application system for 2018 admissions.
This is depite the demands of several parents that the old system be reinstated after thousands of pupils were still not placed on the first day of the new academic year.
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