Presenting key areas of Cabinet-approved Broadcasting Digital Migration (BDM) Policy, the Director General said the digital migration process and the introduction of the Set-Top-Boxes (STB) will improve the capacity of government to deliver services to the people.
The BDM is a process of converting the broadcast of television broadcasting signals from analogue to digital technology.
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The results of this study, entitled ‘The Western Cape ICT in Government Report', were revealed at the Western Cape Local Government Information and Communication Technology Committee (LOGICT): ICT in Government Provincial Conference last week.
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Of this amount, a significant chunk will be spent on IT services, a driver of the unit's services, according to the unit's political head.
Delivering his annual budget vote speech this week, MEC Paul Mashatile allocated the unit the increased budget of about R400 million.
Sita chief executive officer, Llewellyn Jones, opened the GovTech 2008 conference in Durban today saying reducing costs was a key objective for the agency.
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A new report by BMI-TechKnowledge says provincial and local government spent over R5.6 billion on ICT last year, and will spend R6.4 billion by 2011 – and that excludes local government capital expenditure (capex).
IDC senior analyst Pieter Kok adds that all three tiers of government have ageing infrastructure that needs “refresh”, as well as greater integration and consolidation.