More capex investments from public sector

Jul 30, 2015

In an environment of low real economic growth, South African public sector institutions continued to plough an increasing amount of capital expenditure into the economy in the financial year 2013/14. This is evident from the latest capital expenditure survey from...

Public sector lags on POPI

Jun 4, 2015

More than one year after the Protection of Personal Information Act (POPI) was enacted, the public sector has yet to take steps towards ensuring compliance. According to public sector advisors at Grant Thornton, the public sector is falling dangerously behind the private sector in preparing for POPI. Despite an official commencement date for the legislation which is still to be finalised and announced, new research by Grant Thornton indicates that unlike the public sector, the private sector has taken substantial steps towards becoming compliant.

IT can accelerate service delivery

Jun 2, 2015

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...

SAP drives public sector innovation, agility

Sep 25, 2014

SAP Africa kicked off its public sector innovation roadshow in Johannesburg, to highlight how the SAP innovation solutions portfolio including, cloud and big data, supports all levels of government in order to facilitate socio-economic change throughout Africa and how...

Phishing service for the public sector

Jun 11, 2014

Global information security firm MWR InfoSecurity has become the first provider of phishing assessment services to be listed on G-Cloud, the UK Government’s approved online marketplace for the public sector. phish’d, by MWR, is a fully managed phishing assessment...