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Pamela Weaver

ITWeb Contributor

Pamela Weaver used to write speeches for politicians. She now prefers to shoot her own mouth off.

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4:50
Wireless
Oct 30, 2009

Failing grade for African broadband

A UN report hails Africa's mobile revolution, but laments its continued Internet problems.

Pamela Weaver
12:10
Technology
Aug 9, 2009

The netbook effect

A more sophisticated and less expensive revival of the old sub-notebook segment has thrown both the notebook and smartphone markets into a spin.

Pamela Weaver
33:50
Effective e-Government 2007
Jul 22, 2009

Delivering on the Promise: The Top 5

For almost a decade, Accenture has been tracking the progress that governments have made indelivering customer-centric e-government.

Pamela Weaver
5:10
Effective e-Government 2007
Jul 22, 2009

OPENING UP A WORLD OF POSSIBILITY

Dr Ntsika Msimang, leader of the OpenProject Focus Area at the CSIR’s Open Source Centre, talks about the Centre’s activities and the importance of open source to South African e-government.

Pamela Weaver
5:40
Effective e-Government 2007
Jul 22, 2009

CARRYING THE GOALS OF GOVERNMENT

Lucienne Abrahams, director of the Wits LINK Centre, together with consulting researcher Lutske Newton- Reid, answers some questions surrounding municipalities and open source software in e-government.

Pamela Weaver
27:40
Effective e-Government 2007
Jul 22, 2009

FEEL THAT FREEDOM

OPEN SOURCE Open Source Software (or Free/Libre Open Source Software – FLOSS – to be precise) refers to any software that is developed and tested collaboratively and distributed freely to anyone who wants to use or customise it.

Janet Paterson and Pamela Weaver
6:00
Effective e-Government 2007
Jul 21, 2009

TUNED INTO THE DIGITAL PULSE OF CAPE TOWN

The City of Cape Town is one of the shining lights of e-government in South Africa, having won numerous awards for its technological implementations.

Pamela Weaver
62:40
Effective e-Government 2007
Jul 21, 2009

GETTING IT RIGHT AT THE THE GRASS TOOTS

LOCAL GOVERNMENT Given its location at the grass roots of any democratic society, local government faces perhaps the greatest challenges of all the spheres of government when it comes to service delivery.

Pamela Weaver
23:30
Effective e-Government 2007
Jul 21, 2009

STUCK IN SECOND GEAR

WORK IN PROGRESS As with national government, provincial offerings in the portal department continue, where they exist at all, to be very much of the “work in progress” variety.

Pamela Weaver
35:40
Effective e-Government 2007
Jul 21, 2009

IT’S NOTHING WITHOUT THE SKILLS

National Government The seemingly innocuous issue of skills and skills development has, over the past couple of years, forced its way onto many agendas in South Africa and, like many other prominent topics, debate has been heated, thanks in no small part to the relationship between skills supply and our political past.

Pamela Weaver
4:50
Effective e-Government 2007
Jul 21, 2009

ENGAGING IN NEW WAYS OF WORKING

Moving from knowing to doing As the Department of Public Service and Administration’s Batho Pele Handbook on Service Delivery points out, the main challenge facing the South African public service is to move from knowing to doing.

Pamela Weaver
46:00
Effective e-Government 2007
Jul 17, 2009

A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS?

GOVERNMENT TO CITIZEN We South Africans might feature at the top end of a global list for people who find fault with and complain about government, but it’s fair to say that frustration with the workings on government seems to be up there with death and taxes in the inevitability stakes just about everywhere on the planet.

Pamela Weaver