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Pretoria, August 12, 2011.- In response to the government’s request, and based on the MoU signed between the DoC and UNDP on April 2011. UNDP has been arranging activities aimed at enhancing the e-skills for equitable prosperity and global competitiveness in the country and that will serve as an entry point for a policy dialogue and an integrated UN approach towards the implementation of the e-skills Initiative.The e-skills Workshop came at a timely moment where the e-Skills Institute (e-SI) is implementing the development of the five Provincial e-Skills Knowledge Production and Coordination Hubs, and consolidating itself at a national level as the lead institution to achieve a more equitable prosperity and global competitiveness.
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The Department of Communications (DOC) last week held a collaborative workshop with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) to address the e-skills challenge in SA. The department says it has set itself a target of being a global leader in the use of ICT tools for socio-economic development. It is in aid of this that it has collaborated with the UNDP to fast-track ICT skills development in the country. The workshop aimed to lay the foundation needed to upskill and increase the country's ICT usage. Issues such as e-skilling the country for equitable prosperity and global competitiveness, and reducing the shortage of e-skills were discussed.
, February 18 2011.- More than four million South Africans have accessed Thusong Services Centres, which offer government information and services, since April last year, the Minister of Home Affairs Nkosazana Dlamini Zuma said today.
