{"id":28194,"date":"2012-12-10T13:37:48","date_gmt":"2012-12-10T11:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=28194"},"modified":"2012-12-10T15:09:18","modified_gmt":"2012-12-10T13:09:18","slug":"snakes-uys-and-gupta-in-the-ict-policy-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/28194\/snakes-uys-and-gupta-in-the-ict-policy-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Snakes, Uys and Gupta to advise DoC"},"content":{"rendered":"

The South African Minister of Communications, Dina Pule, announced the ICT Policy Review Panel in a media statement issued on Monday (10 December 2012).<\/p>\n

This panel will advise the Department of Communications (DoC) as it proceeds towards developing a Green Paper and later, a White Paper on an integrated national information and communications technology (ICT) policy, the press release said.<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of the respondents are people that we have worked with before and they bring a wealth of experience to our processes,\u201d said Pule.<\/p>\n

The DoC said that the panel will be divided into the six focus areas: broadcasting, telecommunications and information technology, postal, content development, digitising government, and investment and manufacturing.<\/p>\n

The panel\u2019s first meeting is scheduled for January 2013, a further three meetings are scheduled for the rest of next year. The terms of reference for the panel are available on the DoC website.<\/p>\n

The names of the panelists are:<\/p>\n

    \n
  1. Mr Charley Lewis<\/li>\n
  2. Prof Shaun Pather<\/li>\n
  3. Mr Calvo Mawela<\/li>\n
  4. Mr Lehlohonolo Letele<\/li>\n
  5. Dr Tracy Cohen<\/li>\n
  6. Ms Kerron Edmonson<\/li>\n
  7. Mr Lucky Masilela<\/li>\n
  8. Ms Angeline Maseko<\/li>\n
  9. Mr Johann Koster<\/li>\n
  10. Mr Sizwe Lindelo Snail<\/li>\n
  11. Mr Monde Twala<\/li>\n
  12. Mr Sipho Johannes (Joe) Mjwara<\/li>\n
  13. Ms Lulama Nongogo<\/li>\n
  14. Ms Elizabeth Libby Lloyd<\/li>\n
  15. Mr Hlukanisa Richard Jossy Zitha<\/li>\n
  16. Mr Mothibi Glenview Ramusi<\/li>\n
  17. Mr Atul Gupta<\/li>\n
  18. Mr Mpho Mosimane<\/li>\n
  19. Ms Febe Potgieter<\/li>\n
  20. Prof Tshilidzi Marwala<\/li>\n
  21. Mr Pieter Uys<\/li>\n
  22. Mr Snakes Nkateko Nyoka<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

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    ICT Policy Review panel nominations open<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

    ICASA and DoC \u2013 is there a power struggle?<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

    A tale of talkshops<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

    Talk, talk, talk, but no action whatsoever<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The South African Minister of Communications, Dina Pule, has announced the 22 members of the ICT Policy Review Panel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":4648,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[1087,1083,26,4817],"class_list":["post-28194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-department-of-communications","tag-dina-pule","tag-headline","tag-ict-policy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28194","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28194"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28205,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28194\/revisions\/28205"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4648"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}