Brainstorm Magazine

1. SA is falling behind
(October 2008/Columns)

...  Errors as idiotic as failing to properly bind a few of the 25 copies of the licence application (triplicate is so 20th-century!) can disqualify a potential application. But even if the applicants did ...

2. Wonky Wireless
(October 2008/TimeOut)

...  The Bad Sadly, the Sitecom’s second biggest problem is that it requires power. When you’re out on the road, a plug point is a huge luxury and battery power is more likely to be your ...

3. CIVETS are the new BRIC
(October 2008/In-Depth Analysis)

... has advanced infrastructure in banking and business, mining, law and telecommunications. 21st-century macroeconomics In sync with Turkey, South Africa has demonstrated, following the 2010 Fifa World ...

4. Shooting the moon
(October 2008/In-Depth Analysis)

... three great passions: one is the opportunity to do good in the world, which is a luxury that I have been afforded; another is a real passion for technology and Ubuntu includes literally tens of thousands ...

5. Dumb end-users
(October 2008/Features)

... – it can’t just be business or government or simply education.” Says Tareque Choudhury, head of Security Practice and Professional Services Middle East and Africa – BT Global Services: “Within the general ...

6. Giving legs to "legal aid for all"
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... assurance, service level agreements or network management. He says, in practise, this meant faulty data circuits had to be identified and repaired using in-house resources, without the luxury of guaranteed ...

7. Putting an end to fraud
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

The KZN Treasury has implemented a Biometric Access Control System that is intended to save the government millions of rand by curtailing fraud and corruption within the provincial administration. The ...

8. SITA: A decade of existence
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2009)

... to government modernisation is undisputed. A case in point is the Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS) project. The IFMS is a multi-stakeholder programme of National Treasury, Department of Public ...

9. Out of the Ether
(Informatica/Bytesize 2007)

COMMUNICATIONS - INTERNAL NETWORKS Words: Pamela Weaver ETHERNET Its name derived from the chemical compound Ether (through which 19thcentury physicists believed light travelled), Ethernet, invented ...

10. Just How Big Is Small?
(Informatica/Bytesize 2007)

... jobs or the entry point into big business, it is the very lifeblood of a free market economy. The National Treasury has estimated that between 52 and 57% of GDP is contributed by SME s, and defines SME ...

11. A CONTRADICTION IN TERMS?
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2007)

... and actions. • Knowledge-based interactions between government and citizen in the 21st century knowledge society are best achieved through electronic means. The creation of electronic capacity, knowledge ...

12. Mobile in the driving seat
(Informatica/Converging communications 2007)

... or broadened their reach into so many new areas as mobile telephony has. Few breakthroughs have exploded to the point of near-pervasiveness in so few steps: fixed line telephony took more than a century ...

13. Telecommunications Running to Stand Still
(Informatica/Converging communications 2007)

... Finance Management Act. This last fact is likely to raise hackles at Sentech, which is keen on being allowed to do something similar on the fund-raising front but is at the mercy of the National Treasury, ...

14. DRIVING A SIMPLE PROCUREMENT SOLUTION INTO THE PUBLIC SECTOR
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2007)

... and it complies with the regulations of the Public Finance Management Act, the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act, as well as Treasury Instructions and the Supply Chain Management Framework.” ...

15. EXPEDITING GOVERNMENT PROCUREMENT WITH A CENTRAL SUPPLIER DATABASE
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2007)

... at Quadrem, explains that every government department, from the local municipality to the National Treasury, is required to have a supplier database of approved providers of goods and services. “These ...

16. ALL BUSTLING ON THE AFRICAN FRONT
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2007)

... growth” in classic enterprise resource planning (ERP), says SAP SA MD, Claas Kuehnemann. After decades of superstar status in the enterprise, ERP is already starting to sound a bit ‘last century’, and ...

17. MANDATED FOR CHANGE
(Informatica/Effective e-Government 2007)

... a key component of this. A multi-stakeholder programme undertaken by SITA in conjunction with the National Treasury and the DPSA, the IFMS project consolidates and reviews government’s back office applications ...

18. STORM: THE CALM AT THE CENTRE OF CONVERGENCE
(Informatica/Converging communications 2007)

... looks into the near future. • More telcos will announce moves to converge their voice and data networks onto IP-based next-generation networks like British Telecom’s 21st Century Network ...

19. JOIN OUR WORLD
(Informatica/Converging communications 2007)

... IT infrastructure. The company’s new Century City offices, Knowledge Park 2, span 5 500m² over three levels across the road from Knowledge Park 1, where Fusion resided on a single floor for three years, ...

20. ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY BEATS THE SPAMMERS
(Informatica/Converging communications 2007)

... to fund the expense – which, in many instances, could run into millions of rands. Spam is burying companies’ systems. The sheer volume is bringing things to a potential standstill and ISPs will have to ...