Innovation Tag: Digital and Technology Transformation

Accessing local council and central UK Government services using voice.

How shall XXI century court be like? Is it possible to know what brings a citizen to court just by arriving at the building and direct him to the exact place, without any human contact? Yes, it’s possible! Innovative technology, a modern attendance model and streamlined procedures are changing the Portuguese courts. It’s a revolution in the way courts engage with the citizens to better serve them.

Randfontein High School began implementing digital tools in their classes in 2014. All 1.3000 pupils at the school have an iPad they use during lessons and assessments, and every single classroom has been digitized. Before going digital, the school started off by having all its staff trained.

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.

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.

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.

The Blockbuster model predicts the deterioration and future condition of the School Estate under various maintenance and rebuilding spending policies (i.e. the effect of planned maintenance/repair on this deterioration). This provides a data-driven approach to improving the management of the School Estate leading to the potential of saving public money.

The Statement of Interests and Assets system (abbreviated to DIP) allows monitoring assets and potential conflicts of interest of officials through business intelligence. Data mining is used to process new data to address audit teams. This innovation represents a change in the traditional auditing process that improves the efficiency and economy of our teams.

eHealth is a step-by-step digitalization of all interactions in the medical sphere up to the latest technology, interoperability & requirements. With a bottom-up approach civil society, state and business are creating an effective IT tool to fight corruption in healthcare before all legislation is in place. GoU sets up the rules and standards, while business creates final interfaces for users.