James Masonganye, head of operational system management for the City of Tshwane, says broadband Internet is key to providing e-government services for the community and needs to be implemented before the 2010 Fifa World Cup.
The NOC is an integrated system that proactively monitors activities and malicious data coming into the national network and leaving the network, explains SITA acting CEO Femke Pienaar.
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.
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.
President Mbeki was briefing reporters after the eighth Presidential International Advisory Council on Information Society and Development (PIAC on ISAD), which advises him and his Cabinet in the areas of ICT.
South Africa, he said, had to become an advanced information-based society in which ICT tools are the drivers of economic and societal development.
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