📋 Tender Overview
Parliament, Monday, 9 June 2025 - The Portfolio Committee on Communications and Digital Technologies will receive an update tomorrow on the progress being made towards establishing the State Digital Infrastructure Company (SDIC).The Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT) and the Department of Cooperative Governance and Traditional Affairs (COGTA) will brief the committee.COGTA will brief the committee on the Smart Cities Framework, which supports the SDICs Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) infrastructure initiative in implementing the National Development Plan (NDP) goals.The NDP identified ICT as a critical enabler of economic activity in an increasingly networked world. It further called for a single national e-strategy that cuts across government departments and the application of open-access policies to encourage the sharing of certain elements of the backbone fibre network.Following the adoption of the Presidential Commission on State-Owned Entities (SOEs) in 2017, Cabinet approved the SOE Rationalisation Framework for the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies, which outlined the intention to form a single State Digital Infrastructure Company.The SDIC is envisioned to be a wholesale infrastructure provider and would consolidate its broadband infrastructure currently residing with Broadband InfraCo, Sentech, USAASA, and other non-ICT government entities that have deployed fibre infrastructure such as Eskom, Transnet, PRASA, and SANRAL, amongst others.Together with the two departments, these entities are expected to brief the committee on the progress being made to date in realising the aspirations of the NDP, the Broadband Infraco (BBI) Act, and the SOE Rationalisation Framework.Details of the meeting are as follows:Date: Tuesday, 10 June 2025Time: 09:00-13:00Venue: Zoom platformISSUED BY THE PARLIAMENTARY COMMUNICATION SERVICESFor media inquiries or interviews with the Chairperson, please contact the committees Media Officer:E-mail: jmolafo@parliament.gov.za
