Making South Africa a Global Leader

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Department of Communications2006/07 Annual
Report Presentation to Portfolio Committee on
Communications6 November 2007Cape Town
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APOLOGIES

• Ms. Lyndall Shope-Mafole Director General
• Ms. Rosey Sekese Deputy Director-General
  ICT Infrastructure Development
• Leading the South African Delegation, made up of
  DOC, DFA, ICASA, DST, DOT, DOD,SAPS, Aeronautical
  Services, Marine Services and industry to the ITU
  World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) in
  Geneva.
• The WRC is a treaty conference whose decisions
  are binding globally
• The Conference is held once every three or four
  years and decides on the use of the frequency
  spectrum globally.

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TEAM DOC LEADERSHIP CORE
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MANDATE AND FUNCTIONS

• MANDATE
• To create a favourable ICT environment that
  ensures South Africa has capacity to advance its
  socio-economic development goals, support the
  renewal of Africa and build a better world.
• CORE FUNCTIONS
• To develop ICT policies and legislation that
  stimulates and enhances the sustainable economic
  development of the South African economy and
  positively impact on the social well being of all
  our people
• To ensure the existence of a robust, reliable and
  affordable ICT infrastructure
• To ensure the availability of appropriate ICT
  infrastructure and services to increase the
  capacity of the State to deliver and exercise
  oversight on State Owned Enterprises (SOEs)
• To implement South Africas foreign policy in the
  context of the ICT sector

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VISION

• A global leader in harnessing Information
  Communication Technologies for Socio-economic
  development

MISSION To enhance the well being of the
peoples of South Africa, the African continent
and the world through the creation of a
sustainable and enabling Information
Communication Technology environment.
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STRATEGIC FOCUS AREAS

• The Departments key objectives were grouped
  under
• the following broad strategic focus areas, based
  on
• Government priorities
• Achieve higher rates of investment in the economy
• Increase the competitiveness of the economy
• Broaden participation in the economy
• Contribute to building a better world
• Contribute to the capacity of the State to
  deliver

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ACHIEVE HIGHER RATES OF INVESTMENT IN THE ECONOMY

• Broadcasting Digital Migration Flagship project
  of DoC with numerous benefits for the country
• Specialised television services
• Increased local content
• More regional content of national interest
• Additional local language content
• New channels to cater for education, health,
  youth, sport, SMMEs
• Access to government services and information
  (e-government)
• Broadcasting Digital Migration Strategy and the
  Implementation Plan were finalised
• Cabinet approved 1 November 2008 as the digital
  signal switch-on and 1 November 2011 as the
  analogue signal switch off date, providing for
  three dual illumination period.

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INCREASE THE COMPETITIVENESS OF THE ECONOMY

• Policy directives for new and upgraded post
  offices were gazetted
• The following policy directives aimed to reduce
  the cost to communicate were finalised
• International terrestrial and submarine cable
• Robust, reliable and affordable international
  connectivity
• Increasing competition through conversion of VANS
  licenses
• Access to emergency communications
• Frequency spectrum
• Procedures and criteria for awarding radio
  frequency spectrum licenses
• Underserviced area licenses
• Local loop unbundling process
• World Space

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BROADEN PARTICIPATION IN THE ECONOMY

• National Emergency Communications
• PPP document as well as PPP feasibility study
  have been completed with regards to the 112
  Emergency Call Center

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CONTRIBUTE TO A BETTER WORLD

• AFRICA
• The Policy and Regulatory Framework for NEPAD ICT
  Broadband Infrastructure Network for Eastern and
  Southern Africa signed - the first and largest of
  its kind in the world
• NEPAD e-school demo project finalised and ready
  for its launching in six schools in 2007
• The SA/Sudan Joint Bilateral Commission was
  launched in May 2006 in Pretoria
• SOUTH-SOUTH COOPERATION
• The IBSA Framework of Co-operation was signed
  making it the first and most comprehensive in the
  IBSA trilateral.

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CONTRIBUTE TO A BETTER WORLD (cont)

• MULTILATERAL
• RSA participated in ITU Plenipotentiary
  Conference and elected to the ITU Council for
  fourth time in a row
• South Africa participated in the ITU Regional
  Radio-communication Conference, elected chair and
  expert of the planning Committee for region one
  (Europe and Africa)
• South Africa was elected to Chair the African
  Support Committee to provide support for Kenya in
  the 2008 Congress
• As part of World Summit on the Information
  Society (WSIS) follow-up, organised and hosted
  the Information Ethics Conference

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IMPROVE CAPACITY OF THE STATE TO DELIVER

• The Postal Service Amendment Bill was passed in
  Parliament and signed into law by the President
  Following recommendations for the licensing by
  ICASA, more USALS were licensed.
• The Postal Regulator Staff was successfully
  transferred to ICASA in line with the ICASA
  Amendment Act and the Labour Relations Act.
• Unqualified Audit opinion for the 5th consecutive
  year and for the first time without any matters
  of emphasis
• Improved spending patterns with total spend being
  99,8 of the total budget
• Completed a risk assessment - the basis for the
  completion of a new Fraud Prevention Plan and
  Risk Management Plan

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IMPROVE CAPACITY OF THE STATE TO DELIVER (cont.)

• 326 of the 394 funded positions on the
  departmental structure were filled
• 31 SMS, 16 MMS and 2 ASD completed the Leadership
  and Management Development Programme with
  University of Pretoria

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IMPROVE CAPACITY OF THE STATE TO DELIVER (cont.)

• Employment Equity Statistics
• All staff
• SMS members
• People with disabilities

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PRESIDENTIAL NATIONAL COMMISSION ON INFORMATION
SOCIETY AND DEVELOPMENT (PNC on ISAD)
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Planning and Foresight

• In line with the World Summit on the Information
  Society (WSIS) Plan of Action and the
  Presidential International Advisory Council on
  Information Society and Development (PIAC on
  ISAD) recommendation, a National Information
  Society and Development (ISAD) Plan was developed
  with the National Working Group (NWG)
• NWG was made up of representatives of
  Directors-General of National Departments,
  provinces and SALGA.
• Cabinet approved the ISAD Plan as a framework for
  building an inclusive information society in SA
• Cabinet also approved, contained in the ISAD
  Plan, the countrys vision for building an
  inclusive information society in SA as
• Establish South Africa as an advanced
  information society in which ICTs tools and
  Information are key drivers of economic and
  societal development

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Coordination and Integration

• To ensure a coordinated and integrated
  implementation of the ISAD Plan, Cabinet also
  approved the Institutional Mechanisms
• The Ministerial ISAD Committee
• To be chaired by the Presidency
• Supported by the Forum of South African
  Directors-General (FOSAD) ISAD Cluster
• The ISAD Intergovernmental Relation Forum (ISAD
  IGRF)
• The ISAD IGR F was launched in December 2006
• Chaired by the Minister of Communications with
  the Minister of Public Service and Administration
  as the first Deputy Chairperson and Deputy
  Minister of Communications as the second Deputy
  Chairperson.
• The Forum has two MECs per province (nominated by
  the Premiers) as well as the CEO of the House of
  Traditional Leaders

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Evaluation and Impact Assessment

• In line with the government-wide monitoring
  programme, a strategic framework for measuring
  the impact of ICTs on South Africas development
  was finalized
• A National Working Committee, consisting of
  relevant stakeholders, developed an Information
  Society core indicators
• Consultation on the development of a measuring
  tool started to measure the uptake and usage of
  Information and Communication Technology
• The e-Barometer measurement tool, in line with
  the WSIS ICT Opportunity Index, is aimed at
  measuring the magnitude of the digital divide in
  the country

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Special Projects

• In implementing the National ISAD Plan, decided
  to target youth sector with the aim of
  contributing towards addressing poverty and
  unemployment among youth.
• In collaboration with the National Youth
  Commission and Umsobomvu Youth Fund, the PNC
  developed the Youth ISAD Programme.
• The Youth ISAD Programme was adopted, with a
  vision aligned to the national vision as
• To empower youth to be active participants in
  the building of an inclusive Information Society
  and contributing towards bettering the lives of
  all our people
• 460 youth were identified from all nine provinces
  to be trained and to establish e-cooperatives

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Intergovernmental Relations

• To ensure that the PNC effective stakeholder
  management, multi-stakeholder engagement
  strategy and its implementation plan were
  finalized
• In line with government priorities, Nodal Points
  were targeted with the aim profiling them to
  inform Information Society interventions to be
  initiated
• Working closely with the Technical Champions in
  these nodes, a work study visit to twelve of the
  thirteen nodal areas were undertaken to introduce
  the work of the PNC on ISAD and to source first
  hand information on the challenges the nodes face
• The launch ISAD IGR F further gave great impetus
  to the efforts of building an inclusive
  Information Society especially at provincial and
  local government spheres of government.

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Budget vs Actual Performance for the 2006/07
Financial Year
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STATEMENT OF FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE
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FINANCIAL PERFORMANCE (CONT.)
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SUMMARY OF ECONOMIC CLASSIFICATION
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APPROPRIATION STATEMENT
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APPROPRIATION STATEMENT (cont)
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DETAILS OF TRANSFER PAYMENTS
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DETAILS OF TRANSFER PAYMENTS (CONT.)
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FUNDING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE 2008 MTEF OPEX
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FUNDING REQUIREMENTS FOR THE 2008 MTEF CAPEX
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HOWEVER

• Challenges remain in the following areas
• ICT infrastructure (especially broadband)
• Access and accessibility
• Availability
• High cost to communicate although it is coming
  down
• Low level of ICT usage by Government, business
  and citizens
• Scarce ICT skills and low e-literacy
• Limited local content development capacity

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CONCLUSION

• We started addressing these challenges
• Policy directives
• ISAD Plan implementation and skills development
• Establishment of the Meraka e-skills institute
• Established a chief directorate to deal with
  local content development
• Local content has been prioritised as part of the
  Industrial Policy Action Plan
• Initial allocation of R0,5 billion for Sentechs
  wireless broadband network
• Accelerated infrastructure development in
  preparation for 2010 FIFA World Cup

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THANK YOU