COLLABORATIVE OUTCOMES FOR INCREASED PUBLIC VALUE
Russell Lefevre SAP Public Sector Director Wouldn’t it be great if government departments could collaborate with seamless access to each others’ ‘pockets’ of integration? If, for instance, the SA Revenue Service‘s customer intelligence and systems could be a shared resource, providing information about citizens’ paid-up tax status, any service delivered by any other government entity could be made conditional on their settling their debt to government first.
USING THE IFMS AS A CATALYST FOR A NATIONAL ICT SKILLS ACADEMY
Fatima Habib Chief of Sha red Services : SITA When it comes to the issue of skills development, there are many conflicting views as to how serious the problem is, with attitudes ranging from those that suggest there is no shortage of skills at all to those who claim that the shortage is already critical.
E-governance must precede e-government
Adam Rabie is MD of Bytes Public Sector Authorities For effective e-government to be realised, e-governance must first be firmly entrenched, as Adam Rabie, MD of Bytes Public Sector Authorities, explains.
Delivering on the Promise: The Top 5
For almost a decade, Accenture has been tracking the progress that governments have made indelivering customer-centric e-government.
OPENING UP A WORLD OF POSSIBILITY
Dr Ntsika Msimang, leader of the OpenProject Focus Area at the CSIR’s Open Source Centre, talks about the Centre’s activities and the importance of open source to South African e-government.
CROSSING THE FLOOR TO OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE
Muggie van Staden MD: Obsidian Systems Some months ago, the decision was made in parliament that the entire public service would move to open source software (OSS).
CARRYING THE GOALS OF GOVERNMENT
Lucienne Abrahams, director of the Wits LINK Centre, together with consulting researcher Lutske Newton- Reid, answers some questions surrounding municipalities and open source software in e-government.
FEEL THAT FREEDOM
OPEN SOURCE Open Source Software (or Free/Libre Open Source Software – FLOSS – to be precise) refers to any software that is developed and tested collaboratively and distributed freely to anyone who wants to use or customise it.
WIMAX? THERE ARE PERFECTLY GOOD ALTERNATIVES FOR DIGITAL CITIES
Mike Brierley Head of network Solutions: MTN Business WiMAX is roundly vaunted as the on e technology that will get all of South Africa, however ‘lacking’ in communications infrastructure, connected and clicking.
TUNED INTO THE DIGITAL PULSE OF CAPE TOWN
The City of Cape Town is one of the shining lights of e-government in South Africa, having won numerous awards for its technological implementations.