Premier Mme Thandi Modise and relatives comfort 84 year old Fikiswa Goniwe during the exhumation of the remains of two MK guerillas held at Mmabatho Cemetery

BY Obakeng Maje

Minister of Communication, Dina Pule is to outline her department’s offerings to the North West Province and Acting Premier Louisa Mabe 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.
• Analyze 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 realize 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, Digitization 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 Organizations, Consulting Firms – Resident in the North West Province,  ICT Service Providers and representatives of Small medium micro enterprises.