The state of SITA
Can the entity’s first permanent CEO in four years help it turn over a new leaf?
We’ve put four entities under the microscope: the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies, the Information Regulator, SITA, and ICASA, and our findings are reminiscent of my long-suffering primary school teachers, who said: “Shows potential, but must try harder.”
The slow march of government departments adopting cloud services finally seems to be picking up pace.
The 2009 Sita GovTech conference was characterised by veiled and unsuccessful attempts at transparency.
It’s not often that industry players will stand up and openly criticise a government institution, but the State IT Agency’s problems have been around for far too long.
SITA’s e-Government Centre of Excellence is leveraging ICT to improve public access to information and services.
SITA took on the monumental task to operate a contact service centre for the national elections organised by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) in April 2009.
South Africa’s State Information Technology Agency (SITA ) is focused on enabling government to transform service delivery to citizens through innovative use of information and communication technologies.
Government’s IT agency is up for a radical facelift as new Public Service and Administration Minister Richard Baloyi looks to bring the agency to order.
In order to improve service delivery and remove as much of the uncertainty around the public’s applications for identity books as possible, the Department of Home Affairs commissioned a track and trace system.
Sigh! So many questions, so few answers. We dare you to tell it like it could be…
Peter Pedlar`s dreams of grandeur are quashed by Sita`s decision to whitewash the seat he was keeping warm.
Government conference GovTech looks set to be hosted by a headless Sita if an announcement for a new CEO isn`t made soon.
