The Department developed a selection criterion for identifying the 14 municipalities to be prioritised.
Furthermore, an ICT Working Group was established in iLembe which met on a monthly basis to provide the framework for the Municipalities.
Request for adopting iLembe ICT Project as model for Municipality ISAD work was completed however, no Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) has been concluded during the reporting period.
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A model for interacting with Municipalities still needs to be established in terms of the IGR Act.
Consideration is underway regarding mechanisms to strengthen Provincial and Municipal presence noting the absence of Provincial and local concurrency.
The Department implemented Open Source Software security by up-scaling servers and desktops security.
It also installed and tested the OSSEC application both on the client and server environment and also identified and downloaded four applications. The OSS extensive server security and OSS Desktop security was implemented and the Telephone Management System was also upgraded.