3. Strategic Framework
READINESS (SKILLS, APPLICATIONS, ETC)
USAGE
The vision is that of a
Western Cape where every
citizen in every town and
village
has access to affordable
high speed broadband
infrastructure and services,
has the necessary skills to
be able to effectively utilise
this infrastructure
and is actively utilising this
in their day to day lives.
Co-ordinated
and Integrated
Action (Catalytic
Telecoms
Environment)
Connected
Government
Connected
Economy
Connected
Citizens
INFRASTRUCTURE
4. High level Western Cape broadband
infrastructure milestones
Infrastructure development is a key catalyst and that Government’s role has to be to
facilitate and drive the development of telecommunications infrastructure in the
province.
• 70% government buildings & 100% of public schools connected.
• All communities have access to public ICT facilities (in every ward)
• Large government buildings and specific targeted industries in the
metropolitan area are connected via “fibre to the premises”.
• Pilot wireless mesh network deployed in Khayelitsha, Mitchell’s Plain
and Greater Saldanha Bay as alternate last mile access infrastructure.
2014
• Every citizen in every town and village has access to affordable
broadband infrastructure.
• Citizens in the metropolitan area have access to affordable broadband
infrastructure at network speeds in excess of 100Mbps.
2020
• Every citizen in every town and village has access to affordable
broadband infrastructure in accordance with internationally accepted
speeds and standards.
2030
National Targets
• Universal broadband access by 2020
• Public ICT Access within a 2 km radius of anyone by 2019
Note: Focus on ACCESS & AFFORDABILITY across 2020/30 targets!
5. Six core projects
Co-ordinated
and Integrated
Action (Catalytic
Telecoms
Environment)
Connected
Government
Connected
Economy
Connected
Citizens
Connecting
Leadership
Connecting
Government
Connecting
to the World
Connecting
Communities
Connecting
Households
Connecting
Business
6. Connecting Leadership
The objectives of the project are to have integrated and complementary initiatives between
government and the private sector, harnessing limited investment for maximum impact.
Key deliverables include:
• Set up and manage a Broadband Advisory Council/ Leadership forum which will drive the
strategic direction and on-going investment in the broadband environment in the Western Cape.
• Setup and operationalise the Broadband Programme Office to manage and direct the entire
programme ensuring integration and synergy between projects. This includes responsibility for
advocacy and lobbying, securing and managing of funding, commissioning activities needed by
the various projects, monitoring & evaluation, etc.
• Evaluate and setup of an appropriate institutional model
for the long term success of the Western Cape Broadband
Programme (SPV/ PPP).
• Setup and manage a Way-leave Co-ordination Office to
standardise and fast track way leave applications, co-
ordinate infrastructure development projects and
encourage the sharing of passive infrastructure like ducts,
trenches, towers, etc.
7. Connecting Government
2 Core programmes
• Part 1: Building a Provincial backbone (Mainly fibre)
• Part 2: Connect government facilities (via building municipal infrastructure - mainly wireless, tactical
quick wins)
Part 1: Build Provincial backbone
• Phase 0 (Planning & initial setup)
• Phase 1 (District Municipalities – 132 km & 5 POPs) – start in Year 2. 7 months.
• Phase 2 (862 km & 26 POPs – fibre backbone to all LGs) . - Start in Year 2, complete in year 3 (approx.
13 months).
• Phase 3 (1553 km) - Extend communications to other communities and build redundancy. Requires
private sector buy-in and funding contributions
Part 2: Connect Government facilities
• Key Provincial Government buildings to be connected to City
fibre (already underway).
• Connect all schools
• Extend school network footprint to connect all government
building in the vicinity, with the objective of creating a single
government network – reducing cost and facilitating
integration of services to citizens.
• Build links to backbone
8. Phase 1, 2 and 3 overlaid over PGWC sites
• Medium term (3 – 10 year) Provincial Fibre Backbone
• Phase 1 (District Municipalities – 132 km & 5 POPs) –
start in Year 2. 7 months.
• Phase 2 (862 km & 26 POPs – fibre backbone to all
LGs)
• Phase 3 (1553 km) - Extend communications to other
communities and build redundancy.
9. Connecting Communities
This is a project to integrate and expand shared public access to ICT facilities to all
communities in the Western Cape. Public ICT access facilities (e.g. telecentres, Smart Cape,
Cape Access, etc.) are a very important tool to provide poor people with access to technology.
It is being used extensively in both developing countries and developed countries.
A phased approach will be adopted
• Phase 1 will ensure that there are public ICT facilities in every ward by 2014. There are 388
wards in the Western Cape, 233 (60%) of which do not currently have public ICT facilities.
• Phase 2 will extend the public access footprint to every voting district by 2018. There are
currently 1576 voting districts in the Western Cape.
• Phase 3 will evaluate the situation post-Phase 2,
determine the gap with the national targets at that
stage and put in place a strategy to close the gap.
Across all three phases, sustainability models for the
public access facilities (including entrepreneur driven
models) will be explored.
10. Connecting Households
• Create a wireless mesh networks as a “last mile” open access network connecting all
households in an urban area (Khayelitsha & Mitchells Plein) & a non-urban area (Greater
Saldana)
• Utilise network for government-related initiatives e.g. connecting offices, schools, CCTV
cameras, Public Warning Systems, smart meters, etc. and delivering government services
(e-Government, e-Education, e-Health, etc.)
• Partner with private sector to make access to broadband services more affordable to
recipient communities – must also consider readiness (eg. skills)
• Explore partnerships with the private sector to extend and/ or maintain this network while
ensuring “open access”.
• Deploy over a two year period
• Seeding the environment with low cost computing
devices
Medium term goal (by 2020) is that every citizen in every town
and village has access to affordable broadband infrastructure. It
is anticipated that wireless and wireless mesh systems will have
a key role meeting these objectives.
11. Connecting Business
This is a pilot project to develop a model fibre to the premises (fttp) infrastructure in the City
of Cape Town.
Key players in this model will be the City of Cape Town, Western Cape Government, a
broadband operating company (a SPV/PPP between government and the private sector) and
private sector telecommunications service providers.
• Pilot 1: Fringe Precinct
• Pilot 2: Oude Molen (vicinity of planned Cape Health Technologies Park)
• Pilot 3: Khayelitsha business nodes linked to the VPUU programme
• Supporting identified priority sectors
12. Connecting to the World (International connectivity)
• Reduce international bandwidth costs to the Western Cape by using government as a
demand aggregator and an anchor client to obtain dedicated international capacity
• Project viable only taking into account Western Cape Government’s needs and will result in
significantly reducing the cost of international bandwidth.
• Adding CCT needs and the needs of the schools will only strengthen the business case.
• Anticipated to be completed by mid-2013, as it is a key enabler for all of the other projects
• Spare capacity available (if any), will be made available on a cost basis to the targeted
industry sectors/ areas – which should result in these sectors/ areas experiencing a
reduction in the price of international connectivity.
Example : what Tenet achieved
14. Project Plans for the Western Cape BBi Project
Timeframe
2014 2016 20302020
• Set up Broadband Programme
Office
• Initiate PPP process as per
National Treasury guidelines
• PWAN: Connecting schools, WCG
govt buildings, libraries
• Connecting selected Western
Cape Govt buildings to fibre
• Wireless Mesh: Saldanha &
Khayalitsha/Mitchells Plain
• E-Education project – readiness
and usage
ShortTerm
Conclude PPP study which will kick-start the roll-out of:
• Regional fibre backbone and coverage over the Western Cape
• Connected business
• Connected households
• Connected communities
• Connected government
• Connected world
MediumTerm
Programmes
Value,complexity,cost
15. Progress: Connected Leadership
• Broadband Programme Office Established.
• Currently being capacitated
• Various Oversight Committees and Steering Committees established
and functioning
• Transaction Advisors for PPP study appointed and feasibility study for
provincial government infrastructure almost complete. Next phase will
look at Economic Vale Added Projects.
• Readiness Advisor appointed
• Monitoring projects have been initiated
• Network Readiness Index
• WIFI Mesh baseline and impact assessment
• Legal Advisor appointed to look at Wayleave Co-ordination (among
other things)
16. Progress: Connected Government
• Original approach envisaged a short term PWAN and a longer term PPP
process. This has now been relooked at. A long term Public Sector
Outsourcing model is being favoured
• To connect of all WCG corporate sites, schools, healthcare institutions
(clinics, day hospitals, emergency medical services, forensic pathology
services and hospitals), libraries (provincial as well as municipal libraries in
rural areas) as well as satellite administrative offices and depots of the WCG
must be used as a key catalyst in developing the telecommunications
infrastructure for a connected province.
• This will achieve the development of regional and local backbone networks,
as well as some of the subscriber access infrastructure.
• Potentially SITA, as the national agency for government
telecommunications, could extend this further to be utilised for national
departments, municipalities, and other public entities and thereby not only
achieve better economies of scale, but also potentially serve to eradicate
the duplication of network infrastructure.
• Approximately 2000 sites as Phase 1
17. 10 year roadmap Minimum network speeds at start of phase
Phase 1 (2013 – 2016) Phase 2 (2017 – 2021) Phase 3 (2022 onwards)
Duration 3 years 5 years 2 years
Cumulative Duration 3 years 8 years 10 years
WCG Administration sites
Within Metro
Large Sites 1Gbps 1Gbps 10Gbps
Medium sites 100Mbps 1Gbps 10Gbps
Other Sites 10Mbps 100Mbps 10Gbps
Outside of Metro
Large Sites 100Mbps 1Gbps 10Gbps
Medium sites 10Mbps 100Mbps 10Gbps
Other Sites 10Mbps 100Mbps 10Gbps
WCED sites
Within Metro
Large Schools 100Mbps 1Gbps 10Gbps
Other schools 10Mbps 100Mbps 10Gbps
Outside of Metro
Large Schools 100Mbps 1Gbps 10Gbps
Other schools 10Mbps 100Mbps 10Gbps
Health sites
Within Metro
Hospitals 1Gbps 10Gbps 10Gbps
Clinics & Other 100Mbps 100Mbps 10Gbps
Outside of Metro
Hospitals 100Mbps 1Gbps 10Gbps
Clinics & Other 10Mbps 100Mbps 10Gbps
DCAS
CoCT Libraries 100Mbps 1Gbps 10Gbps
Other Libraries 10Mbps 100Mbps 10Gbps
Other DCAS sites 10Mbps 100Mbps 10Gbps
Other requirements
maximum allowable usage of satellite
technology (percentage of sites ) 10% 0% 0%
Backbone network medium Fibre & Wireless Mainly fibre, limited wireless 100% fibre
Access network medium (Metro) Fibre & wireless Mainly fibre, limited wireless 100% fibre
Access network medium (outside Metro) Mainly wireless Some fibre, mainly wireless 100% fibre
20. Progress: Connected Communities
• Connecting all public libraries in the province and creating Public
Access Sites in all wards is part of the Connected Government tender
• 2 “super” community access points will be created – to test the
entrepreneurial and sustainability models. Will be “live” by March 2014.
• E-Education
• Strategic Vision formulated by Department of Education with support from
DEDAT
• Substantial work has been done in developing the e-Education Business Case
which includes the six streams identified in the e-Education vision, namely
teaching, learning, curriculum, systems, environment (including infrastructure)
and administration.
• Various projects being pursued by WCED including Devices for teachers and
learners, E-Curriculum and Learning management systems, LAN Infrastructure in
schools (including WIFI), etc.
21. Progress: Connected Households
Planning Already Initiated:
1. Khayelitsha|Mitchell’s Plain Wireless Mesh
2. Saldahna Wireless Mesh
Feasibility Analysis commenced:
1. Knysna Wireless Mesh
2. Bitou Wireless Mesh
Aim:
To create a wireless mesh networks as a “last mile” open access network
connecting all households in a particular community:
Being driven by the municipalities (with support from DEDAT)
22. Progress: Connecting Business
• 4 pilots identified:
• The Fringe – Design Businesses
• Cape Health Technology Park (‘Big Data’)
• VPUU in Khayelitsha (none-sector based)
• Selected sectors within 100m of fibre
• Business Incubator in Khayelitsha
• Broadband Innovation Centre
• Collaboration - Effective innovation requires engagement between government, the
research sector, industry and communities.
• Demonstrate new services and applications in the real world with real users.
• Works in the following seven areas:
• Media and Entertainment
• Health and Social Security
• Education and Learning
• Government and Business Services
• Smart Infrastructure
• Safety and Security
• Social and Economic Analysis.
23. Implication for you
• Infrastructure is happening. It might not
happen as fast as we like, but it is happening
• Even more important is uptake i.e. readiness
& usage
• Where is the
• affordable devices,
• relevant local content ,
• Applications
• services priced for the mass market
• Etc.
that will drive usage?
• It can’t only be up to government. Benefits
will only be achieved if the whole society is
engaged and using ICT to be more
productive.
24. Conclusion
• Our initial research undertaken indicates that this programme is viable
and cost effective. The question is - can we partner with the private
sector and leverages future expenses to build economic infrastructure
that will take the province into the future? This is what the feasibility
study needs to establish.
• The true value of the project is in the economic development benefits
and how it increases the competitiveness of the Western Cape, bringing
us on par with our competitors in the developed world, the developing
world and the rest of Africa.
• Big bold project, but one that is necessary at this stage.
• Current approaches are not working. South Africa is rapidly sliding down
the international indices. More of the same is not going to work if South
Africa is to turn the situation around.
• The Western Cape Broadband programme is a true legacy project that
will position the Western Cape for the future, but also light the path
ahead for the rest of South Africa.
Premier Zille - “game-changing infrastructure agenda”
President Zuma – “The time has come to move beyond
conceptualization to concrete projects.”