Government has backtracked on plans to have communications regulator Icasa report to the newly created department of communications, which also houses the SABC, Brand South Africa and other entities, a highly placed source with knowledge of the development has told TechCentral. Instead
The State IT Agency (Sita), the government body meant to co-ordinate government’s IT spending, is “dysfunctional”. This is hurting both government departments and the companies that supply technology services to government. This is the view of Gijima
Minister in the presidency and National Planning Commission head Trevor Manuel has warned that South Africa is falling behind in information technology and has issued a challenge to the industry to turn the situation around. Manuel was speaking at the State IT Agency’s
The problems South Africa faces require specialised technologies to help resolve them, public service minister Lindiwe Sisulu said in Cape Town on Tuesday. “In present day South Africa, we have challenges that require specific, and not generalised, off-the-shelf interventions to resolve, and so you fail
Gijima’s management team is “confident” it has taken the “correct strategic decisions” to get the company “back on track”, despite reporting a massive R210,8m loss in the financial year ended 30 June 2013, from a much smaller loss of R50,6m in 2012
No suspects have been identified in connection with the hacking of the SA Police Service website last month, police minister Nathi Mthethwa revealed on Wednesday. Mthethwa said the investigation was still underway and the level of threat to identified whistleblowers was not yet known
Microsoft plans to work with the CSIR and the State IT Agency (Sita) to launch a trial network in South Africa’s Limpopo province that will test the feasibility of using so-called television white-spaces spectrum to offer more affordable wireless broadband access. The trial will be the third white-spaces trial
A total of 38 websites, and not only one, form part of the Free State’s multi-year integrated website project, the provincial government said on Tuesday. “In total, 38 reengineered websites form part of this project, including the provincial government’s utilisation of social media platforms such as
Three government websites that were disrupted by a hacker over the weekend were defaced, not hacked, the State Information Technology Agency (Sita), which hosts the sites, said on Tuesday. “Sita is confident of its work and capacity to secure government information
A hacker is claiming responsibility for disrupting three South African government websites. The social development department’s website opened to a black page with a window containing the animated graphic “Website hacked by H4ksniper” and a graphic depicting
