With the elections over, every politician worth their salt knows that a major speech must include the phrase ‘Fourth industrial Revolution’, because that’s what it’s all about, right? As is so often the case, there’s a considerable distance between the vision and the reality on the ground.
Itec Tiyende MD, Simbo Ntshinka, lends his voice to the roundtable of expert technologists and business leaders to try to gauge how big that gap is — and what the private sector can offer to fill it.
“What we’ve experienced is that many departments love to use paper,” he says. “A lot of the digitalisation is haphazard; you end up with expensive deployments like broadband in the Eastern Cape, which is very underutilised. There are good policies, but they fail on implementation.”
Read more of Simbo’s insights in the full article here.