Mr Maphologela said this week that e-services were an initiative of the city meant to provide online access to a range of services for individuals and businesses in the greater Johannesburg area. "Mail gets lost in the post office, or gets delivered to the wrong address and as a result the customer never receives his statement. There is also a lot of returned mail with wrong addresses," he said.
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The colloquium will be held at Gallagher Estate in Midrand on 19 and 20 April and is meant as the start of a process of reviewing all of government’s ICT policies.
News of the planned event comes just days after a new World Economic Forum report was published showing SA is performing particularly poorly as a connected nation, ranking behind Tunisia and Mauritius in Africa and placing 72nd in the world.
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WordPress is the most popular content management system (CMS) in the world, but Joomla dominates when looking at South African government websites.
Recent research by BuiltWith shows that 63% of the world’s top million websites are powered by WordPress.
Joomla is second with 11% and Drupal third with 9%.
This is according to the 2012 edition of the World Economic Forum’s Global Information and Technology Report.
The report says sub-Saharan Africa remains the most poorly connected region on earth, with a distinct lack of access to affordable information and communication technology (ICT) and a severe lack of skills.
Read more: Report paints bleak picture of ICT in South Africa
"Information and communications technology is a pre-condition for socio-economic development and national competitiveness. However, a shortage of key skills is a huge constraint," says Sandra Burmeister, CEO of Landelahni Amrop