Introduction to Linux Training Workshop
Creating adequate end user enthusiasm to ensure a successful software deployment in our organisation. Register 4 of delegates and bring the 5th delegate ABSOLUTELY FREE!!  read more

Inspire Open Source Focus Week Report

Open Source can play a critical role in diversifying economy. Investing in developing a solid skills base in the province for open source skills, with the assistance of INSPIRE programme will create new social and economic opportunities to enhance the delivery of Provincial Growth and Development goals. read more

Document Freedom Day

When a government communicates with its citizens, it is important that they will all be able to access and read the documents that the public servants wrote. Not only that. Those public servants themselves who wrote the documents need to be able to read and possibly update them again in future, even after the companies that give us our text processing software have vanished, and the details of how those programs work have disappeared with them. Technologies change every day and by adopting open standards such as the Open Document Format (ODF), government will be able to access its information and records across various platforms and applications for many decades.For this reason the world-wide celebration of Document Freedom Day on 31 March is significant. read more

Open Standards in the Government

The e-Document Work Group from the Presidential Commission has in the past been responsible for spearheading the adoption of open standards in the country. In 2008 the PNC hosted the XML Standards in Government workshop in order to equip government with tools for service delivery through open access. Other international organisations like the ODF Alliance www.odfalliance.org are prominent in the celebration of Document Freedom Day. In 2008, there was an international ODF Alliance Workshop which took place at the Department of Science and Technology.  read more