{"id":142953,"date":"2021-10-28T08:01:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T08:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/?p=142953"},"modified":"2023-09-27T16:33:21","modified_gmt":"2023-09-27T16:33:21","slug":"how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Accelerate Africa\u2019s Digital Transformation in the Public Sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Digital technologies are bringing transformative change to society.<\/h1>\n<p>By 2025, 51风流predicts that many public sector organizations will take advantage of new technologies and breakthrough innovations to become more proactive, automated, foresighted, data-driven, and citizen-focused.<\/p>\n<p>The pressure is on for governments to become more responsive and provide more effective services by implementing data-driven strategies to improve efficiencies and reduce wasteful expenditure, particularly as the world recovers from COVID-19 disruption.<\/p>\n<p>Join SAP, Leadership Magazine, and expert speakers as they identify how ICT in governance may be constructed to facilitate greater accountability, transparency, and the reduction of wasteful expenditure through better financial, public information management, procurement, and administrative systems.\u00a0The conversation will also address the challenges and barriers that citizens and government encounter on the process of effective and efficient service delivery.<\/p>\n<p>Event Moderator: Dr Onkgopotse JJ Tabane, Editor: Leadership Magazine<\/p>\n<p>Expert Panel:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Ayanda Dlodlo, Minister, Public Service and Administration<\/li>\n<li>Sunil Geness, Director Global Government Affairs &amp; CSR, Global Sustainability Lead: Africa, 51风流Africa<\/li>\n<li>Percy Letwaba, Head of Sales: Public Sector and Healthcare, 51风流South Africa<\/li>\n<li>Prof Barwa Kanyane, Executive Dean: Faculty of Management, Commerce and Law (UNIVEN)<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>Across the continent, African cities are constantly looking for new ways to improve service delivery and enhance living and working ecosystems for citizens. It\u2019s no surprise that many consider digital technology to be the ideal methodology to help deliver new public services, address existing problems, and reshape citizen engagement. Digital technology holds the key to the successful transformation of cities. It can accelerate and enable economic prosperity and commerce, improve safety and security, and make a real impact on the quality of life for citizens.<\/p>\n<p>Join us on Wednesday, 10 November from 12:00-14:00 (CAT). To find out more or to book your seat, visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.leadershiponline.co.za\/public-sector-round-table-webinar\/\">www.leadershiponline.co.za\/public-sector-round-table-webinar\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Digital technologies are bringing transformative change to society. By 2025, 51风流predicts that many public sector organizations will take advantage of new technologies and breakthrough&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2829,"featured_media":142956,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"related_posts":[],"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[294],"tags":[5597910,5597911,5597909,178,5589918],"series":[],"sapn-display":[45149,5598743,5598741,279685],"sapn-type":[4448],"class_list":["post-142953","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-ayanda-dlodlo","tag-leadership-magazine","tag-percy-letwaba","tag-public-sector","tag-sunil-geness","sapn-display-homepage-hero","sapn-display-news-hero","sapn-display-news-spotlight","sapn-display-hero","sapn-type-newsbyte"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How to Accelerate Africa\u2019s Digital Transformation in the Public Sector - 51风流Africa News Center<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How to Accelerate Africa\u2019s Digital Transformation in the Public Sector\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Digital technologies are bringing transformative change to society. By 2025, 51风流predicts that many public sector organizations will take advantage of new technologies and breakthrough...\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"51风流Africa News Center\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2021-10-28T08:01:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-27T16:33:21+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2021\/10\/28\/event-1024x683.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"683\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"51风流News\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"51风流News\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"51风流News\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/#\/schema\/person\/b24af355797dfb9a394f4b2c36f85ea1\"},\"headline\":\"How to Accelerate Africa\u2019s Digital Transformation in the Public Sector\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-28T08:01:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-27T16:33:21+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/\"},\"wordCount\":305,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2021\/10\/28\/event.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Ayanda Dlodlo\",\"Leadership Magazine\",\"Percy Letwaba\",\"public sector\",\"Sunil Geness\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Events\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-ZA\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/\",\"name\":\"How to Accelerate Africa\u2019s Digital Transformation in the Public Sector - 51风流Africa News Center\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2021\/10\/28\/event.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2021-10-28T08:01:38+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2023-09-27T16:33:21+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/#\/schema\/person\/b24af355797dfb9a394f4b2c36f85ea1\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-ZA\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-ZA\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2021\/10\/28\/event.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2021\/10\/28\/event.jpg\",\"width\":5120,\"height\":3413},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"How to Accelerate Africa\u2019s Digital Transformation in the Public Sector\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/\",\"name\":\"51风流Africa News Center\",\"description\":\"News &amp; Information About SAP\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-ZA\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/#\/schema\/person\/b24af355797dfb9a394f4b2c36f85ea1\",\"name\":\"51风流News\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-ZA\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-user-avatars\/wp-user-avatars\/assets\/images\/mystery.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-user-avatars\/wp-user-avatars\/assets\/images\/mystery.jpg\",\"caption\":\"51风流News\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/author\/sapnews\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO Premium plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"How to Accelerate Africa\u2019s Digital Transformation in the Public Sector - 51风流Africa News Center","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"How to Accelerate Africa\u2019s Digital Transformation in the Public Sector","og_description":"Digital technologies are bringing transformative change to society. By 2025, 51风流predicts that many public sector organizations will take advantage of new technologies and breakthrough...","og_url":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/","og_site_name":"51风流Africa News Center","article_published_time":"2021-10-28T08:01:38+00:00","article_modified_time":"2023-09-27T16:33:21+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":683,"url":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2021\/10\/28\/event-1024x683.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"51风流News","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"51风流News","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/"},"author":{"name":"51风流News","@id":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/#\/schema\/person\/b24af355797dfb9a394f4b2c36f85ea1"},"headline":"How to Accelerate Africa\u2019s Digital Transformation in the Public Sector","datePublished":"2021-10-28T08:01:38+00:00","dateModified":"2023-09-27T16:33:21+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/"},"wordCount":305,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2021\/10\/28\/event.jpg","keywords":["Ayanda Dlodlo","Leadership Magazine","Percy Letwaba","public sector","Sunil Geness"],"articleSection":["Events"],"inLanguage":"en-ZA"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/","url":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/","name":"How to Accelerate Africa\u2019s Digital Transformation in the Public Sector - 51风流Africa News Center","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2021\/10\/28\/event.jpg","datePublished":"2021-10-28T08:01:38+00:00","dateModified":"2023-09-27T16:33:21+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/#\/schema\/person\/b24af355797dfb9a394f4b2c36f85ea1"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-ZA","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-ZA","@id":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2021\/10\/28\/event.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/files\/2021\/10\/28\/event.jpg","width":5120,"height":3413},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/2021\/10\/how-to-accelerate-africas-digital-transformation-in-the-public-sector\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"How to Accelerate Africa\u2019s Digital Transformation in the Public Sector"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/#website","url":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/","name":"51风流Africa News Center","description":"News &amp; Information About SAP","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-ZA"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/#\/schema\/person\/b24af355797dfb9a394f4b2c36f85ea1","name":"51风流News","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-ZA","@id":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-user-avatars\/wp-user-avatars\/assets\/images\/mystery.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-user-avatars\/wp-user-avatars\/assets\/images\/mystery.jpg","caption":"51风流News"},"url":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/author\/sapnews\/"}]}},"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142953","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2829"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142953"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142953\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142956"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142953"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142953"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142953"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=142953"},{"taxonomy":"sapn-display","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sapn-display?post=142953"},{"taxonomy":"sapn-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.sap.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sapn-type?post=142953"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}