African Leadership in ICT Needs Analysis South Africa - GeSCI

• Merging and separations of ministries poses a challenge which has had political and
party influences.
However, the government has been active in terms of policies to address the issues with the
ambition to integrate fully ICT into all spheres of education starting from the foundation of basic
education to all the post‐school educational opportunities for the citizenry as a whole.
Opportunities, needs and gaps – with a particular focus on drawing out capacity building
needs and leadership competency priorities
• The national system of innovation has to be integrated politically and economically.
• Collaboration between various agencies is lacking.
• Stakeholders lack social capital and trust capital.
• There is a need to understand that rights come with responsibilities and hard work and
dedication is critically important. There is a need to promote the appetite for lifelong
learning, for building multi skills and create a venturesome and innovative culture across
from the youngest age as a life long journey.
• There is discrepancy between good policy documents and lack of implementation. This
has serious implication for the ALCIT programmeme of training. It is important to offer
the programmeme with a view to address this anomaly and make both middle level
officials and other stakeholders involved in implementation processes to join and find
what hinders implementation and how to find better ways of achieving goals and results
with leadership.
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