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Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have shaped a new world. These technologies, when correctly harnessed, enable greater access to information, stimulate economic development, enhance opportunities and enable governments to deliver services efficiently to citizens. The South African government is committed to work with all stakeholders in building a 'people-centred, inclusive and development-oriented Information Society' in the country.

'We, in South Africa, strive to nurture and consolidate the tenets of a people-centred society, creating, while using the means of information and communication, a Learning Nation where innovation and knowledge are promoted, protected and rewarded' - Deputy President Thabo Mbeki addressing ISAD Conference in May 1996.

'Indeed, the creation of an inclusive and development-oriented Information Society is in the best interests of the majority of humanity, because most of the peoples of the world, especially from the developing countries, are confronted by the challenge of exclusion in the context of the global economy, in whose development modern information and communications technologies (ICTs) play a vital role' - President Thabo Mbeki addressing World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) in Tunisia in November 2005. 

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