The South Africa Information Technology Industry Strategy Project

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The South Africa Information Technology Industry
Strategy Project

• Presentation to Stakeholders
• - February 17, 2000 -

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Overview

• Introduction of the Project Team
• IT in Canada
• SAITIS Goal and Purpose
• Overview of the Project

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Neville Nicholas - Project Director
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Rodwyn Grewan - Deputy Project Director
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Marié Roux Project Support Officer
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The ICT Sector in Canada

• Estimated Revenues in 1999 C110bn (6.4 of
  GDP)
• gt 70 of revenues came from ICT services
  (including telecommunications services)
• Estimated 40,000 new jobs created in 1999
  (mostly in software and computer services)
• Current employment exceeds 550,000
• RD in the ICT sector gt 40 of total private
  sector RD

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Recent estimates suggest that more
than1,000,000 North Americans could beemployed
in rewarding, high income jobs today if they had
the appropriateinformation technology skills.
IT Association of Canada (ITAC)
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E-commerce in Canada

• Canadian e-comm is second only to the US
• Revenues projected to reach C155bn by 2003
• 180,000 new, high-valued jobs to be created by
  2003
• Large increases in productivity and
  competitiveness

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If there were no more improvements in
technology, the US economy could carryon growing
just due to productivity gains arising from
going to Internet distribution.
David Hyde Pearce
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SAITIS Goal and Purpose

• Project Goal
• To develop a strong SA IT Industry to contribute
  to sustainable economic growth, social upliftment
  and empowerment
• Project Purpose
• To establish, on a sustainable basis, the
  cooperative strategies, structures, processes and
  the indigenous capacity to strengthen and grow
  SAs IT Industry

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The Opportunity
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Building on Strengths
Mining? Financial Services?Tourism?

• Innovation
• New business formation (especially SMMEs)
• Job creation

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Goal and Developmental Impacts
To develop a strong SA IT Industry to contribute
to sustainable economic growth, social
upliftment and empowerment
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Impacts, Outcomes and Outputs
Long term
3 years
Outcomes occur during the life of the project
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Developmental Outcomes

• Measures in place to strengthen and grow the IT
  industry
• Measures developed for job creation in the IT
  industry and related sectors, and submitted to
  government and stakeholders
• Processes established to develop, review and
  implement strategies and action plans for IT
  industry development

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Developmental Outcomes

• Greater capacity of local resources for
  continuation of the IT industry strategy
  development and implementation process
• Co-operative structures in place to ensure
  on-going participation of all stakeholders in the
  IT industry
• Enhanced skills to support the national IT
  industry

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The Importance of Indicators

• What constitutes the IT industry?
• How do we measure the IT industry?
• How do we measure progress?

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