State Information Technology Agency (SITA) and the Mpumalanga Provincial Government signed a business agreement (BA) on Monday, 8 September 2003 in Nelspruit.
In terms of the agreement, SITA will provide information systems, information technology, data management and related services to the 11 departments in the province.
"The main aim of the relationship is to increase service delivery to citizens, cost-effectively through the use of IT," says SITA Chief Executive, Zeph Serepo.
"The relationship will support and hugely stimulate the local economy by means of specialised procurement of IT and money will be spent where it is earned," said Director General of the Mpumalanga Provincial Government, Advocate Stanley Soko.
SITA will provide support at all levels of the provincial government, implement its standards and methodologies to ensure interoperability and high-level information security as well as introduce IT to previously disadvantaged individuals.
In addition, the province will benefit from the Government Common Core Network (GCCN-VPN), gain access to the command centre and the geographical information system (GIS) super data warehouse.
SITA is already hosting the provincial government's transversal systems (BAS, PERSAL and LOGIS) on its mainframe and the company's wide area network (WAN) is also used for current data transmissions.
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