Shared services to drive municipal service delivery
With pressure mounting on the government to reduce costs while improving governance and service delivery, there is an opportunity for municipalities to streamline their operations by adopting a shared services model. During the recent 2016 Budget Speech, the emphasis...
Public sector needs to embrace availability
Following the completion of the South African Budget speech in Parliament, it is clear that government is striving to create an enabling environment for its citizens. Gregg Petersen, regional director for the Middle East and Africa and the South Asian Association for...
Enermatics for effective municipal management
Many of the difficulties ordinary South Africans experience with utility services stem from ineffective management of many of the country's 262 municipalities. Enermatics, an established provider of smart metering technology and reseller of power to end users, has...
eGovernment – is South Africa on track?
eGovernment today is changing the quality of service delivery to people around the world But is South Africa on track? Johannesburg, Tuesday 9th February, 2016: In its forthcoming CA IT Management Symposium* scheduled to take place on the 25th February at Vodaworld...
NBC gears up for local elections with new equipment
As part of its mandate to ensure effective live coverage of Regional Councils and Local Authority Elections in Namibia, the country's public broadcaster, the Namibian Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), recently upgraded legacy camera equipment through their longstanding...
Gemalto completes Guinea voter registration
Gemalto has managed a comprehensive modernisation of Guinea's voter register on behalf of CENI, the National Independent Electoral Commission in the country. This included the use of 2 500 units of the Coesys Mobile Enrollment station, a portable biometric citizen...
Public sector digitalisation builds on legacy
It is common knowledge that digitisation is the logical next step for the public sector. Consequently, we are seeing governments around the globe take steps towards delivering digital e-government with varying levels of success. Mohamed Cassoojee, vice-president and...
Qlikview shows public sector how it’s done
The first ever public sector-focused networking business breakfast by QlikView SA, which took place in Johannesburg, was attended by 60 delegates from 25 government agencies, all showing a lively interest in visual analytics leader Qlik’s ability to extract data from...
E-Tshwane leads in digital service delivery
In today's fast paced world of instant communication and digital connectivity, it is fundamental that ICT be harnessed to assist government meet its service delivery needs. However, the fact is, most public bodies are still plagued by huge service delivery...
Mobile a shortcut to open access broadband
Government’s recent announcement that owners of fibre optic networks - including itself - would be compelled to share capacity with other Internet service providers shows the high expectations it has of the digital world. Broadband access is linked to economic...
SAP helps municpalities transition to MSCOA
SAP South Africa has announced its intent to engage with its ecosystem and local government with a view to assisting local government municipalities to simplify its functions and new regulatory processes, following the recently published Municipal Regulation on...
IT can accelerate service delivery
Technology provides the foundation for public sector organisations to accelerate service delivery through infrastructure architecture, at both the hardware and software level. That’s the view of Edgar Mabothe, district manager: Public Sector and Telco, EMC Southern...