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Pamela Weaver

The netbook effect

A more sophisticated and less expensive revival of the old sub-notebook segment has thrown both the notebook and smartphone markets into a spin.

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.

Effective e-Government 2007

Pamela Weaver

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.

Effective e-Government 2007

Pamela Weaver

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.

Effective e-Government 2007

Pamela Weaver

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.

Effective e-Government 2007

Janet Paterson

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.

Effective e-Government 2007

Pamela Weaver

GETTING IT RIGHT AT THE THE GRASS TOOTS

LOCAL GOVERNMENT Given its location at the grass roots of any democratic society, local government faces perhaps the greatest challenges of all the spheres of government when it comes to service delivery.

Effective e-Government 2007

Pamela Weaver

STUCK IN SECOND GEAR

WORK IN PROGRESS As with national government, provincial offerings in the portal department continue, where they exist at all, to be very much of the “work in progress” variety.

Effective e-Government 2007

Pamela Weaver

IT’S NOTHING WITHOUT THE SKILLS

National Government The seemingly innocuous issue of skills and skills development has, over the past couple of years, forced its way onto many agendas in South Africa and, like many other prominent topics, debate has been heated, thanks in no small part to the relationship between skills supply and our political past.

Effective e-Government 2007

Pamela Weaver

ENGAGING IN NEW WAYS OF WORKING

Moving from knowing to doing As the Department of Public Service and Administration’s Batho Pele Handbook on Service Delivery points out, the main challenge facing the South African public service is to move from knowing to doing.

Effective e-Government 2007

Pamela Weaver

A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS?

GOVERNMENT TO CITIZEN We South Africans might feature at the top end of a global list for people who find fault with and complain about government, but it’s fair to say that frustration with the workings on government seems to be up there with death and taxes in the inevitability stakes just about everywhere on the planet.

Effective e-Government 2007

Pamela Weaver

JOINING THE DOTS

GOVERNMENT TO GOVERNMENT Government is a big, diverse industry all of its own.

Effective e-Government 2007

Pamela Weaver

AS OLD AS THE HILLS

PLATFORM FOR CHANGE The city of Athens is widely accepted as the mother of modern government, the concept having been well-articulated and put into practice there by the 6th century B.

Effective e-Government 2007

Pamela Weaver