Ms Ntsinde, the Acting CEO of SITA did not seem to be enthusiatic on presenting the change that she is bring to the ailing agency as she iterated that she does not want to be measured on the plans but on the action made. Among other things the turnaround strategy for SITA pointed out to three areas
(1) PRice competitiveness
(2) Supply Chain Management efficiencies, and
(3) Wiping out corruption that has dogged the agency
Dr Harold Wesso, from the Western cape's government and the architect of Cape Gateway initiative, who is now the Acting DG at Comms Dept, made a presentation on the South African move towards broadband. It is exciting how both public and private sectors have finally moved beyond the talks to push for broadband. We cannot deny that the Soccer World Cup was an impetus behind this major investment in broadband. I can't wait for the full rollout that will benefit the Government, SMME business and the ordinary citizens. Within no time we can begin to see the real eGovernment benefits to the Citizens especially the rural citizens.
I was surprised to meet a friend Dr Solomon Bhunu who presented the Presidency's Government-wide M&E framework and system. He indicated that an information system (with GIS, M&E indicator framework and BI reporting capabilities) will be developed soon to monitor and report on the performance of individual Government Departments, National and Provincial. It was interesting to meet him together with other Western Cape based delegates.
One of the presenter made a good impression on virtualisation and cloud computing for government. There is a talk and a practise on Government Cloud (g-cloud) which can be made highly secured as a VPN for all government tiers and agencies.
During the afternoon I visited the UShaka Marine World. Wow, this place is truly amazing. I will be bring my family here. Unfortunate the interesting sections such as the Aquarium were closed.
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