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The Gauteng Department of Education (GDE) is committed to accelerating the use of ICT in education as part of its strategy to improve teaching and learning in all schools. The GDE seeks to ensure that schooling in Gauteng benefits from new developments in technology and from other educational innovations that can enhance the delivery of quality education.
In January 2013 Sunward Park High became the first public school in South Africa to migrate completely from printed textbooks into a fully digital platform with over 1.250 learners accessing an offline digital portal (which contains many educational resources) at the time using Android tablets.
Rede Bem Cuidar (Well Caring Network) is a network of Local Health Units, each acting as a multi-generational social hub. Incorporating a community engagement process that involved local representatives, UBS staff, and community members. The resulting renovations are designed to improve healthcare facilities and services, support employee wellbeing, and create much-needed community space.
Smart Rubbish Collection system improves cleanliness, reduces collection costs and increases collection speed. The ROI is 12-18 months. The main target market of the system are all municipalities around the world, especially new municipalities that are building new housing or industrial sites.
Gwanghwamoon 1st street served as a people’s transition office that collected citizen's suggestions for the new government through a variety of platforms including website, temporary office, local branches installed in every municipality, telephone, text message, and email. For 49 days after its launch in May 2017, it collected 180,705 suggestions, of which 99 were reflected in the national agenda.
In 2016 CBS (Statistics Netherlands) invented the concept of the Urban Data Centres. City data are improved through the combination with national data and data-expertise available at the CBS through which smart, data-driven cities were created.
In the first interaction with government, citizens should be able to access in a satisfactory way services: in a cost-effective and reliable process, without facing bureaucratic delays or corruption. For this purpose, an innovative system has been developed to deliver citizenship and land ownership certificates to citizens, through an open platform.
For the first time in Ireland, the State Laboratory have developed and implemented an analytical strategy allowing postmortem forensic toxicology samples to be screened for previously 'invisible' designer drugs outside the traditional scope of testing. This project has supported the Irish Coroners service in solving death investigations that previously could not have been satisfactorily concluded.
On June 17 we completed the phased exit from Aspire, government’s largest outsourced IT contract (£10bn). Despite skepticism, we split Aspire, took control of our IT and created a ground-breaking commercial IT operating the model. Recognized as the government’s most successful major program, Columbus delivered on time with huge savings for taxpayers – creating a blueprint for any organization to follow.