Limpopo Business 2017-18 edition
A unique guide to business and investment in Limpopo. Limpopo Business 2017/18 is the ninth edition of this highly successful publication that has, since its launch in 2007, established itself as the premier business and investment guide to the Limpopo Province. This edition of Limpopo Business is officially endorsed by the Office of the Premier of Limpopo. This book contains detailed insights into the plans of the Limpopo Economic Development Agency (LEDA) and the recently launched bus rapid transport system for the provincial capital, Leeto la Polokwane, together with a comprehensive register of all provincial government and municipal contact details. Investment news related to mining, telecommunications and tourism is carried in overviews of all the main economic sectors. To complement the extensive distribution of the print edition of the magazine, the publication is also available online at www.limpopobusiness.co.za.
A unique guide to business and investment in Limpopo.
Limpopo Business 2017/18 is the ninth edition of this highly successful publication that has, since its launch in 2007, established itself as the premier business and investment guide to the Limpopo Province. This edition of Limpopo Business is officially endorsed by the Office of the Premier of Limpopo.
This book contains detailed insights into the plans of the Limpopo Economic Development Agency (LEDA) and the recently launched bus rapid transport system for the provincial capital, Leeto la Polokwane, together with a comprehensive register of all provincial government and municipal contact details. Investment news related to mining, telecommunications and tourism is carried in overviews of all the main economic sectors.
To complement the extensive distribution of the print edition of the magazine, the publication is also available online at www.limpopobusiness.co.za.
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OVERVIEW<br />
Information and communications<br />
technology (ICT)<br />
<strong>Limpopo</strong> is getting better connected.<br />
SECTOR INSIGHT<br />
<strong>Limpopo</strong> Connexion is<br />
rolling out broadband<br />
infrastructure.<br />
• 949 community members<br />
received ICT skills training<br />
in the past year.<br />
When leaders and policy-makers met in the fourth quarter<br />
of 2016 at the <strong>Limpopo</strong> Economic Summit, one of the<br />
six pillars identified as pivotal to the province’s progress<br />
was ICT and the knowledge economy.<br />
A wide area network (WAN) for the province was listed as a key<br />
objective and it was decided that a combination of fibre and wireless<br />
technology should be used to reduce cost. A science and technology<br />
master plan is also to be developed.<br />
The body responsible for rolling out the infrastructure is <strong>Limpopo</strong><br />
Connexion, a subsidiary of the <strong>Limpopo</strong> Economic Development<br />
Agency (LEDA). The first phase began in <strong>2017</strong> with broadband infrastructure<br />
in Polokwane as the focus. The second phase will cover more<br />
than 80% of the provincial population, as per the provincial spatial<br />
development framework.<br />
In the 2016/17 financial year, 949 community members received ICT skills<br />
training in a programme run by the <strong>Limpopo</strong> Department of Economic<br />
Development, Environment and<br />
Tourism (LEDET).<br />
One way of achieving higher<br />
connectivity in rural areas is<br />
to focus on schools and libraries.<br />
The Universal Service and<br />
Access Agency of South Africa<br />
(USAASA) provides ICT services<br />
to public and private schools,<br />
hospital and training colleges.<br />
<strong>Limpopo</strong> is one of five provinces<br />
that USAASA concentrates on<br />
with respect to school connectivity:<br />
more than R25-million has<br />
been spent since 2010 on this<br />
project and more than 400 smart<br />
devices distributed.<br />
Private telecommunications<br />
companies also have community<br />
responsibilities in terms<br />
of the National Development<br />
Plan. They must help connect<br />
under-serviced areas to the telecommunications<br />
and Internet<br />
networks.<br />
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