Presentation to Portfolio Committee

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• Presentation to Portfolio Committee
• On Home Affairs 11 November 2003

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PURPOSE AND SCOPE OF THE PRESENTATION

• Purpose
• The purpose of this presentation is to inform the
  Portfolio Committee on our relationship with
  Department of Home Affairs

• Scope of the presentation
• Guiding Principles
• IT House of Values
• Corporate Structure
• Services Rendered
• Projects outside SITA Domain
• DGs Vision of an Ideal Home Affairs
• How SITA can assist

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GUIDING PRINCIPLES

• Specific guiding principles for implementation of
  SITA services are
• Building service delivery credibility through
  rapid creation of value
• Building of collaborative partnerships with
  government departments to ensure success
• Dual focus in managing SITA, i.e. build new
  capabilities while maintaining and improving on
  current service levels and
• Support the socio-economic policies of
  Government
• Promotion of a positive and service delivery
  image through communication, marketing and public
  relations.

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IT HOUSE OF VALUE
are enabled by ...
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IT and hence SITA has to be an enabler for
welfare from the cradle to the grave
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CORPORATE STRUCTURE
SITA (Pty) Ltd
SITA Defense Services
SITA Civilian Services
SITA e-Services

• Unique Defense IT/IS services including the
  following
• Data Center
• Networks
• Application Support
• Application Projects
• IS Security

• Data Center
• Networks
• Application Support
• Application Projects
• IS Security

• Regulatory and Governance standards on IT in
  Government ito
• Architecture
• Research
• Security framework
• Acquisition

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Services Rendered

• Mandatory Services/Transversal Systems
• - Printing
• - Hosting
• - Persal
• - Financial Management System
• Wide Area Network
• - Currently operating on 16 disparate networks
• - Migrating to Government Core Network (GCCN),
  which carries data, voice, video conferencing
• Non-Mandatory Services
• Hosting of movement control system
• Hosting of national population register
• Currently IT spent is R36m from an approximate
  R310m budget for the above services to SITA

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Projects outside SITA Domain

• De la Rue Passport Printing
• Choice Technology Electronic Data Management
  System
• Marples Consortium Home Affairs National
  Identification System

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DGs Vision of an Ideal Home Affairs

• The ideal DOHA expectations of a basic service
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• ü       Fully paperless environment
• ü       Single front end
• ü       Single system for the department
• ü       Single database
• ü       Electronic forms
• ü       Improve system availability
• ü       Foreign offices connection (97 missions)
• ü       Standardisation of platforms
• ü       Connecting Lindela as a pilot site
• ü       ICSC integrated client services console
• ü       Fingerprint identification (2 versus 10)
• ü       Internet establishment
• ü       Rationalization resources

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How SITA can assist

• Implement a Master Systems Plan
• Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity
  Management
• Virtual Private Network i.t.o. solution
  design/topology
• SITAs Research Development to engage on ICT
  Strategic requirements
• Call Desk Services
• Implement Information Systems Security framework
• Explore a new Fingerprint System
• Training, skills development and Internship
  programmes
• Presence in mission critical projects, e.g. HANIS
• Manage strategic relationship between SITA and
  Home Affairs

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Thank you for all the supportWe are convinced
that a basis for a Partnership exists.