This is the official Facebook page for the State Information Technology Agency (SITA) SOC Ltd.
SITA is listed as a Schedule 3A National Public Entity in terms of the Public Finance Management Act. Government is the sole shareholder of SITA, and the Minister of Telecommunications and Postal Services exercises the custodian rights attached to the shareholder on behalf of the State.
The mandate of SITA as stated in the Act is:
- To improve service delivery to the public through the provision of information technology, information systems and related services in a maintained information system security environment to the departments and public bodies; and
- Promote the efficiency of departments and public bodies through the use of information technology.
Below is a list of SITA’s mandatory and non-mandatory services as defined in the SITA Act:
Mandatory Services:
Private Telecoms Network (sec 7(1)(a)(i))
Transversal Systems (sec 7 (1)(a)(ii))
Transversal Data Processing (sec 7(1)(a)(iii))
Information System Security (sec 6 (a))
Disaster Recovery Plan (Regulation, sec 4.1.2)
Procurement (sec 7(3))
Standards (Interoperability & Security) (sec 7 (6)(a)(i),(ii))
Certify against standards (sec 7(6)(b))
IS Convergence Strategy (Regulation, sec 4.1.1(a))
Information Systems Inventory (Regulation, sec 4.6)
Research Plan (Regulation, sec 4.4.1)
Non-Mandatory Services:
Department ICT Training (sec 7(1)(b)(i))
Department Information System Development (sec 7(1)(b)(ii))
Department ICT maintenance (sec 7(1)(b)(iii))
Department Data Processing (sec 7(1)(b)(iv))
Advisory Services (sec 7(1)(b)(v))
ICT Management Services (sec 7(1)(b)(vi))
Provide Authentication Products (sec 7(6)(c))
Do ICT Research (sec 7(6)(d))
