Western Cape Broadband (South Africa)
Channel: Nirvesh Sooful
Date: 10/11/2012

A high level video introducing the Western Cape Provincial Government Broadband initiative. The Western Cape is one of the fastest growing provinces in South Africa. The Western Cape Provincial Government believes that economic development is key to addressing the many challenges facing the Province, and that strategies adopted must subscribe to the paradigm that there cannot be development without economic growth. 

It is also important to recognise that the Western Cape economy is moving from one based principally around the production and distribution of physical goods to one driven primarily by the production and application of knowledge. As such, the Western Cape is home to many initiatives in the ICT/ Knowledge economy space. For most of these initiatives, the presence of a well-functioning, robust and accessible telecommunications infrastructure is a prerequisite.

The Western Cape Broadband Strategy presents the blue-print for a coherent response to the development of a broadband telecommunications infrastructure in the Western Cape that would support and enable these initiatives as well as the drive for economic growth as envisaged in the Provincial growth strategy.