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Joel Netshitenzhe
Speech: Launch of Government website (transcription)
28 January 1999
Deputy President, Ministers and Deputy Ministers present here, members of the Portfolio Committee and other guests. My task is merely to welcome all of you to the launch of the Government web site, Government Online.
I should explain that, although from time-to-time Government Communicators are given to theatrics, the State Theatre is not our Head Quarters. We have selected the venue for its proximity and also for reasons of space. Our Head Quarters is across the road at Midtown, and if you have not noticed it, that is one of the challenges that we have relating to visible corporate image for government.
This launch of Government
Online takes government communications
a step further, towards the
ideals which are contained
in the Comtask report. And
if there has been some web
site in the past, this is
different from the point of
view that the Government Online
is a single entry point to
government information, all
the departments and agencies
of government. It has better
content, is user friendly,
better architecture, better
design and layout, and if
you are wondering what has
happened to our modesty,
this is of course merely our
own judgement. As the saying
goes 'You be the judge' and
we hope that you will give
us honest opinions about the
web site in the better to
assist us to improve it.
At
our launch last year in May,
we indicated some of the challenges
facing government communication,
and one of them was the establishment
of the Government web site.
But we also resolved then
that we will not consider
GCIS to have been launched
before the Government web
site is launched and before
we got the blessing of the
Deputy President, who is our
ultimate political principal.
Today is that opportunity,
and we thank all of you
for taking time off to join
us in this celebration. But
we should also thank the management
of State Theatre for making
this venue available, in a
sense with people in the theatre
who are partners in communication,
thank you.
Joel
Netshitenzhe
CEO, GCIS
Issued by Government
Communication and
Information System
(GCIS)
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