This year’s State Information Technology Conference (GovTech) 2016 is being hosted in Gauteng, a stellar example of government’s “e-strategy” which aims to improve service delivery for all citizens....
Women, youth and small medium and micro enterprises joined large companies and government bodies to celebrate South African innovation at its best at the prestigious State Information Technology Agency (SITA) Public Service ICT Awards ceremony on 30 October....
Wednesday, 26 October 2016 Royal HaskoningDHV won yet another prestigious award for technical excellence at the biennial IMESA/CESA Excellence Awards held on Tuesday night at the 80th IMESA Conference in East London. The awards give recognition to well-engineered civil engineering projects for infrastructure. Entrants for the awards must portray the art and science of civil engineering for infrastructure to the general public and indicate how the profession finds answers to challenges. Frank Stevens, former IMESA President, presented the awards. According to Stevens, the high standard of this year’s entrants made judging the Excellence Awards a challenge....
Projects of Royal HaskoningDHV came out triumphant once again at the South African Institution of Civil Engineering (SAICE) & South African Federation of Civil Engineering Contractors (SAFCEC) Annual National Awards held at Emperor’s Palace on the 13th October, winning 4 awards in the Technical Excellence, Water Engineering and Community based Projects categories....
The social impact of the deployment of information and communications technologies (ICT) has to be given more priority, despite the country having already made significant strides in terms of transforming into a digital economy....
Information and communications technology (ICT) is an important contributor towards improved public service delivery. It is for this reason that the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) will again acknowledge the positive role South African businesses and individuals are playing in driving the adoption and effective use of state-of-the-art technologies by government at the SITA Public Service ICT Awards....
Registration for the 2016 Government Technology Conference (GovTech) and the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) Public Service ICT Awards is now open. The conference and awards are being held at Gallagher Estate, Midrand in Gauteng from the 30th October to the 2nd November 2016 with a theme of ‘ICT for Development, Access and Growth’....
Former President Nelson Mandela said “Education is the great engine of personal development. It is through education that the daughter of a peasant can become a doctor, that the son of a mineworker can become the head of the mine that a child of farmworkers can become the president of a great nation. It is what we make out of what we have, not what we are given, that separates one person from another.”...
The Consulting Engineers South Africa (CESA) Bi-annual Economic and Capacity Survey for the period July to December 2015, just released indicates that times are tough and getting tougher with industry confidence the lowest in 16 years. The report indicates that the consulting engineering industry will have to adapt to a low growth environment as the outlook for infrastructure spending is hampered by poor economic growth, lower than expected revenue by government, international economic instability and price volatility, and low private sector confidence. Over 540 firms employing just over 24 315 staff, who collectively earn a total fee income of R23.4...
2015 was a good year for Royal HaskoningDHV. The company acquired and delivered numerous projects, which contribute to the turnover and success of the company, as well as to improving living circumstances of people across the world. To discover how we’re doing this, we invite you to read our Annual Report 2015 Highlights magazine....