A group of organisations - including the APC, South Africa Connect, SANGONeT (Southern African NGO Network) and The Shuttleworth Foundation - are convening a one-day event as a first step towards drafting a framework for a national broadband strategy for South Africa.
Subban, who will speak at this year's eGovernment Conference, hosted by ITWeb, says there is no collective country strategy for the roll-out of broadband services, and the government has placed too much on the private to deliver these capabilities.
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.
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 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.