{"id":53893,"date":"2014-03-04T15:08:08","date_gmt":"2014-03-04T13:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/?p=53893"},"modified":"2014-03-04T15:08:08","modified_gmt":"2014-03-04T13:08:08","slug":"doc-names-broadband-council-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/53893\/doc-names-broadband-council-members\/","title":{"rendered":"DoC names broadband council members"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Broadband Advisory Council (NBAC), which will advise the Minister of Communications on the implementation of\u00a0the national broadband policy and strategy, \u201cSouth Africa Connect\u201d, was launched today (4 March 2014).<\/p>\n<p>In a press statement announcing the launch, the Ministry of Communications said that the council comprises of independent technical experts and representatives of business, trade unions and civil society.<\/p>\n<p>The council members are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Dr Sibusiso Sibisi, the CSIR President (Chair);<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Alison Gillwald, Director of Research ICT Africa (Deputy Chair);<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Sunil Maharaj;<\/li>\n<li>Ms Mandla Msimang;<\/li>\n<li>Mr Arthur Goldstuck;<\/li>\n<li>Dr Bernie Fanaroff;<\/li>\n<li>Mr Mlamli Booi;<\/li>\n<li>Mr Geoffrey Qhena;<\/li>\n<li>Prof. Jyoti Mistry; and<\/li>\n<li>Ms Jesse Maluleke.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\u201cWe have an excellent team in the Council and their advice will assist in rolling out broadband faster and more effectively,\u201d said Minister of Communications, Yunus Carrim.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe need to move faster, with greater cooperation of the stakeholders, to deliver broadband,\u201d Carrim said.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on government<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to \u201cCaring government\u201d wants to fix e-toll billing mess\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/53596\/caring-government-wants-to-fix-e-toll-billing-mess\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u201cCaring government\u201d wants to fix e-toll billing mess<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Government to blame for weak rand: DA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/52473\/government-to-blame-for-weak-rand-da\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Government to blame for weak rand: DA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Government drags on SA competitiveness\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/general\/45541\/government-drags-on-sa-competitiveness\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Government drags on SA competitiveness<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permalink to Government failing ICT in SA\" href=\"http:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/government\/35542\/government-failing-ict-in-sa\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Government failing ICT in SA<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minister of Communications has appointed a council to advise him on implementing South Africa\u2019s broadband policy<\/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":[25,2518,843,2078,7548,7549,7550,7551,7552,7553,7554,7555,6270],"class_list":["post-53893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-government","tag-active","tag-alison-gillwald","tag-arthur-goldstuck","tag-bernie-fanaroff","tag-geoffrey-qhena","tag-jesse-maluleke","tag-jyoti-mistry","tag-mandla-msimang","tag-mlamli-booi","tag-national-broadband-advisory-council-nbac","tag-sibusiso-sibisi","tag-sunil-maharaj","tag-yunus-carrim"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53893","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=53893"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53894,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53893\/revisions\/53894"}],"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=53893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/businesstech.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}