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Wednesday, 3.07.2024
eGovernment Forschung seit 2001 | eGovernment Research since 2001
Metrofile's Paul Mullon and Bob Eedes jointly chaired the recent e-government conference held in Pretoria. In their opening addresses, they addressed some of the challenges facing government.

Read more: South Africa: From governance to service delivery

The State Information Technology Agency (SITA) and Enterprise Commerce Systems are about to roll-out an electronic document management system (EDMS) for the Eastern Cape Province's Department of Education. The project is set to commence at the end of September.

This roll-out will be a pilot project, based on which the EDMS will be implemented across the entire Eastern Cape Province, says SITA Project Manager, Sidwell Ngqando. "The focus, however, is for now on the Departments of Health, Public Works and Social Development, which were identified by the provincial interim management as main areas of concern."

Read more: South Africa: Document management system a first for Eastern Cape

The Gateway project, which can be described as the future of government service delivery, is fast taking shape. The first phase of the programme is expected to be launched in September 2003.

Established in 2002, e-Government Gateway is about the development of a single online system that will provide South Africans with access to government services any time, anywhere.

Read more: South Africa: Gateway is taking shape

In response to William Davy's article (Big bang installation of city's IT system is dangerous approach, September 10), the City of Cape Town is of the firm opinion that its ERP programme is a bold but well-considered approach.

Davy, who was last a contractor to the city over two years ago, examines the ERP project as an information technology project and misses the point that it is in fact a transformation project to integrate seven organisations with more than 28 000 staff, a budget of more than R10 billion, and which serves 3.2 million residents.

Read more: South Africa: City's new IT system is a bold solution to the challenges of the..

The recent mid-year Cabinet Lekgotla has noted good progress in the implementation of Resolution 7, the restructuring plan for the Public Service.

Speaking in Pretoria this morning, Public Service and Administration Minister Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi said the majority of Government departments had completed their internal matching and placing processes and the inter-departmental processes were proceeding well.

Read more: South Africa: Cabinet Notes Progress in Public Service Restructuring

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