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Innovating Public Service Delivery: A Recap of Cape Town’s First Innovation Hackathon

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Cape Town’s first Innovation Hackathon aimed to develop an “EPublic Participation Platform” for city residents, and the winning team created a userfriendly webbased application that facilitates job searches and provides updates on City projects. The event showcased exceptional skills and forwardlooking insights, emphasizing the power of technology and young citizens in improving public services. The participants surprised judges with their solutionoriented applications, focusing on developing costeffective, userfriendly software capable of efficiently retrieving information on projects, tenders, and job opportunities. The hackathon highlighted the dedication of UVU Africa and CAPACITI to fostering local talent to bridge the digital gap and showcased the candidates’ commendable skills and innovative thought processes.

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A New Dawn in Government Service Delivery for Mokopane Residents

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The Department of Home Affairs in South Africa has launched a groundbreaking initiative called “Home Affairs on Wheels”, bringing government services closer to the populace through a fleet of mobile office trucks. The trucks offer fullyequipped services, including applications for passports, smart IDs, birth, marriage, and death certificates, and will be stationed in towns and villages at specific times. The initiative aims to reduce the costs and distances rural residents incur to access these services, with plans to add a hundred more trucks each year until they reach a thousand.

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The Launch of Mokopane Office and Mobile Office Trucks: An Evolution in Public Service Delivery

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Exciting news for South Africa! President Cyril Ramaphosa launched the Department of Home Affairs’ new Mobile Office Trucks in Mokopane, Limpopo, on May 7, 2024. Dubbed ‘Home Affairs on Wheels,’ these trucks aim to improve accessibility, speed, and costeffectiveness of public services, offering vital services such as smart ID, passport, birth, marriage, and death certificate applications. The initiative plans to deploy 100 trucks, expanding the fleet by at least 100 trucks annually, aiming to reach a total of 1,000. This marks a significant evolution in the record of public service delivery in South Africa.