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Gauteng turns to tech for infrastructure development

Staff Writer
By Staff Writer, ITWeb
Johannesburg, 18 Jan 2017
Technology helps Gauteng province deliver infrastructure development projects more efficiently.
Technology helps Gauteng province deliver infrastructure development projects more efficiently.

Technology and data have helped Gauteng's government improve delivery of massive infrastructure projects, such as the building of schools and hospitals.

This is according to Gauteng MEC for infrastructure development, Jacob Mamabolo.

Speaking at the inaugural United Nations Data Forum in Cape Town this week, Mamabolo said the Gauteng province is using technology to enhance the infrastructure delivery pipeline.

"We have made remarkable progress in leveraging, harnessing and applying smart technologies and systems, with business intelligence capabilities to deliver and drive infrastructure development," he stated.

One example Gauteng is using to track spending and project milestones to ensure public infrastructure is delivered on time, at the correct quality and within budget is the Lutsinga Infrastructure House.

Launched last year, Lutsinga Infrastructure House is a technology solution that hosts systems that have the immovable asset register, including properties and land parcels that are critical for all construction projects.

"It is a room integrating five of our core data management systems generating critical business intelligence that allows for a data-centric, insight-driven, proactive approach to project management.

"Centralised dashboards display critical data aggregated from all our operations and has automated our infrastructure delivery core process in the province," explained Mamabolo.

Lutsinga Infrastructure House also has a construction and built project management dashboard, the expanded public works programme dashboard, the e-maintenance dashboard, as well as an infrastructure monitor that measures and reports on the socio-economic impact of the department's work.

"We needed to ensure our managers change their reporting habits and that they are accountable. We needed to bring transparency and visibility to the management environment and build our capacity to fight and root out corruption," he said.

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