The Department of Public Service & Administration has gazetted a draft digital governance policy framework for input by 19 October 2024.
According to a section in the document outlining the background to these proposals concerned, they seek to respond to a recommendation in the fourth industrial revolution presidential commission report. Published in 2020, among other things the report underscored the need for a more comprehensive ‘transversal digital policy’ dealing with issues otherwise overlooked in the context of an apparent preoccupation with ‘artificial intelligence, machine learning, blockchain and drones’.
This is noting that an assessment of digital maturity conducted in 2018 across the public service found, among other things, that:
The draft governance policy framework seeks to respond to these challenges, focusing on interventions underpinned by international best practice and uniform cross-cutting standards.
Published by SA Legal Academy Policy “Watch”
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