Minister of Communication, Dina Pule is to outline her department’s offerings to the North West Province. Acting Premier Louisa Mabe will deliver the keynote address at a gala dinner for the opening of the Provincial Consultative Information Communication Technology (ICT) Indaba to be hosted by the Office of the Premier of the North West Province this evening at the Orion Safari Hotel in Rustenburg.
The objective of the two day summit that will provide a platform for government and the ICT industry to engage on the broad roadmap for the development, implementation and maintenance of baseline ICT infrastructure and e-governance service in order to:
- Assist the North West Provincial Government to create a road map that will enable it to align current systems and align it to future trends and plans, especially related to the vision 2030 and beyond,
- Engage with stakeholder and share related experiences where governments or companies have planned for similar goals.
- Analyse and predict current and future ICT trends and
- Identify possible partners in the ICT sector and determine the role they would play to assist the province to realise its socio-economic objectives.
“The explosion and demand for technology over the first half of the 21st century is leading governments to start the process of interacting with relevant stakeholders to improve service delivery. The ICT Indaba that will bring together various stakeholders and players in the ICT sector will therefore assist the provincial government to plan the way forward on how to use ICT to improve the lives of citizens in the province,” Premier Mme Thandi Modise had said earlier.
Presentations to be delivered by various public and private partners in commissions will cover ICT for Improved Service Delivery, ICT Skills required by province, Monitoring and Evaluation Systems, Delivery Model Governance, Telemedicine, Health Record, E-learning, SA-SAMs / Learner Unit Record Information System, ICTs for Rural Development, Digitisation of Local Content, and Expanding access to communication technology /Broadband.
Role players and stakeholders invited to be part of the indaba include Heads of Departments, Municipal Managers, Chief Executive Officers, Chief Financial Officers, Chief Information Officers, Deputy Director Generals, ICT Managers from provincial departments, Municipalities and State Owned Enterprises, IDP / Planning Managers from municipalities, Communicators, State Information Technology Agency, SALGA – North West, Non-Governmental Organisations, Consulting Firms – Resident in the North West Province, ICT Service Providers and representatives of Small medium micro enterprises.
Members of the media are invited to cover the event. Kindly RSVP with Pat Dooms at 084 831 4072 before 12h00 for accreditation (media only).
Enquiries:
Lesiba Moses Kgwele
Tel: 018 388 3705
Cell: 083 629 1987
Fax: 086 620 4802
E-mail: LKgwele@gmail.com
