Speaking at the two-day meeting with the Presidential International Advisory Council on Information Society and Development (PIAC) in Mpumalanga, President Thabo Mbeki said that South Africa had to become an advanced information-based society in which Information and Communication Technology (ICT) tools were the drivers of economic and societal development.
[This article was published in the September 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
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Eastern and Southern African communication ministers are going to sign the official protocol for the region’s ICT broadband infrastructure network, that includes the Eastern Africa Submarine Cable System (EASSy), by month-end.
Microsoft is planning to assist in giving ICT training to more than 45 million people in Africa by 2010.
African Parliamentary officials from eleven countries, the Southern African Development Community (SADC) Parliamentary Forum and the Pan African Parliament will discuss at a United Nations workshop the benefits of applying Information and Communications Technologies to their work in order to promote parliamentary democracy.
Sahara Computers and Electronics Ltd (SCEL), a joint venture between South Africa’s Sahara Computers Ltd and the Sahara India Pariwar, could soon offer laptops below Rs.25,000.
The Government Information Technology Officers (GITO) Council, South Africa, informed that it would help municipalities to improve the service delivered to citizens through ICT.
[This article was published in the May 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
Building strong microfinance institutions entails improving governance, professionalising management, strengthening internal controls and accounting practices, and introducing low-cost ways of doing business
[This article was published in the May 2006 issue of the eGov Magazine (http://www.egovonline.net) ]
The solution lies with new delivery channels that make innovative use of ICTs to inexpensively process a large volume of small transactions and deliver a wide range of financial services
Now, South Africa (SA) is in a mood to deliver better service to the visitors during World Cup in 2010. Viewing at the coming event the Government of SA is trying its best to improve the quality of service through ICT as a host country.
