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South African Post Office on its 2016 Strategic & Annual Performance Plan
15 Apr 2016
South African Post Office Corporate Strategic Plan 2016/17-2018/19
The South African Post Office (SAPO) presented its 2016 Strategic and Annual Performance Plans to the Committee. It said that it was in the process of reviewing its overall property strategy, including the approach to the disposal of all its properties, looking ...
Science and Technology
Academy of Science of South Africa & Human Sciences Research Council on their 2016 Budget & Annual Performance Plan
14 Apr 2016
The Academy of Science of South Africa briefed the Committee on its Annual Performance Plan 2016/2017. One of the most important goals for the Academy of Science of South Africa was to generate evidence-based solutions to national and global challenges. The Academy of Science of South Africa had a Liaison ...
Science and Technology
Department of Science & Technology, NACI, CSIR, SANSA, NRF & TIA on their 2016 Annual Performance Plan
13 Apr 2016
The Department of Science and Technology (DST), National Advisory Council on Innovation (NACI), Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), South African National Space Agency (SANSA), National Research Foundation (NRF) and Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) presented their Annual Performance Plans to the Committee.
DST mentioned its plans to improve the ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
SITA on its 2016 Strategic and Annual Performance Plans
7 Apr 2016
The State Information Technology Agency briefed the Committee on its strategic plan and Annual Performance Plan. It had six strategic goals, 13 strategic objectives and 25 targets in its six programs.
Strategic priorities were: value added procurement to lower the cost of goods and services; providing the core Information Technology ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Department on its 2016 Strategic Plan & Annual Performance Plan, with Minister
5 Apr 2016
Missing Documents: Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services 2016 Annual Performance Plan
The Committee was briefed by the Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) on its strategic and anuual performance plans. The presentation spoke to the alignment of the DTPS priorities with government’s priorities, gave a summary of its priorities ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Broadband rollout: Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services & Entities briefing
15 Mar 2016
The Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services (DTPS) and its entities briefed the Committee on broadband rollout. First the policy context was looked at, followed by contextual issues, the global environment, collaboration with other stakeholders and finally a discussion of the various broadband initiatives.
In terms of policy context, the ...
Science and Technology
Global Change Grand Challenge: Department of Science and Technology briefing
9 Mar 2016
The Department of Science and Technology (DST) briefed the committee on the Global Change Grand Challenge (GCGC), a South Africa programme headed up by the DST, which was heavily dependent on knowledge generation, science policy interface and technology innovation programmes, that sought to link science and technology with social, economic ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Committee Report on Over The Top (OTT) services
8 Mar 2016
Documents Handed Out:
Draft Report of the Portfolio Committee- dated 08 March 2016
Draft Committee Minutes dated 20 October, 31 October 2015, 27 January 2016, 16 February 2016 and 23 February 2016
Draft Report of the Portfolio Committee- dated 08 March 2016
[All Committee Reports available under Tabled Committee Reports ...
Telecommunications and Postal Services
Provision of ICT in schools: Department of Basic Education & Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services briefing
1 Mar 2016
The Department of Telecommunications and Postal Services met jointly with the Department of Basic Education regarding the provision of ICT connectivity in all schools through South Africa. Additionally, the meeting involved stakeholders, including the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) and the Universal Service and Access Agency of South ...
Science and Technology
Water Research Development and Innovation (RDI) Roadmap: Department of Science and Technology briefing
24 Feb 2016
The Department of Science and Technology (DST) presented Research Development and Innovation (RDI) Roadmap to respond to the need for innovative solutions, technologies and processes in addressing the current drought facing South Africa, given that 98% of the country’s water supplies are fully allocated. The intention of the DST in ...