Old laws governing SA's ICT sector must be scrapped and new laws urgently drafted, to create fertile ground for the digital economy, says tech entrepreneur Andile Ngcaba.
In this episode of ITWeb TV, Andile Ngcaba , executive chairman and co-founder of Convergence Partners , discusses the dire need for South Africa’s ICT laws to be fundamentally changed to respond to the current social, economic and technological evolution.
Various laws − including the Electronic Communications and Transactions Act 25 of 2002, Telecommunications Act of 1996 and South African Post Office Act of 2013 − have been outpaced by the expeditious evolution of technology, resulting in regulatory and enforcement challenges for government and local businesses, Ngcaba pointed out.
As the ministry responsible for policy development for the ICT sector, the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies has several policy interventions in the pipeline. These include the gazetting of the National Data and Cloud Policy, as well as the National AI Policy Framework. “ could run consultation processes with the entire ecosystem and create new legislation. Look at some of the laws today; data for instance, the legislations around AI, and the way in which connectivity is defined. You can't define connectivity by technology, the way current laws have done.
“These were the laws governing the old system that we had to scrap and write new legislations that are more inclusive of everybody and would also introduce industry competition in order for us not to continue with the same monopoly model we had before.
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