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CPSI pays tribute to the late Minister for the Public Service and Administration, Mr Radhakrishna Lutchmana (Roy) Padayachie (1950 to 2012)
CPSI conveys heartfelt condolences to the Padayachie family. Minister Padayachie will be remembered as one of the most dedicated and committed leader that served our nation and the public service as whole.
President Jacob Zuma expressed his and that of the nation's inner most sense of loss and despair at the passing of Minister Padayachie. He said Minister taught us the importance of loving our country and its people, and putting South Africa first in everything we do.
Call for Entries for the 10th CPSI Public Sector Innovation Awards 2012
The 10th CPSI Public Sector Innovation Awards 2012 are officially open for entry. All public service is encouraged to enter their innovative projects for improved service delivery.
The Categories are as follows:
Innovative partnerships in Service delivery
Innovative use of ICT for effective service delivery
Innovative service delivery institutions (e.g schools, hospitals, police stations)
Innovative enhancements of internal systems of government.
The category winners will compete for the coveted Public Sector Innovator of the Year Award.
Entry forms can be downloaded from our Awards Page.
Our Vision
The vision of the CPSI is a solution-focussed effective and efficient Public Sector through Innovation.
Our Mission
We act as enabler, facilitator, catalyst, incubator, demonstrator of and partner for innovation within and throughout the public service.
CPSI Celebrates the 9th CPSI Public Sector Innovation Awards
The Centre for Public Service Innovation staged an outstanding celebration of the 9th CPSI Public Sector Innovation Awards on Friday, 04 November 2011. The Chris Hani District Municipality's Rural Sustainable Villages Project scooped the coveted Public Sector Innovator of the Year award 2011. The prestigious ceremony was graced by the Minister for Public Service and Administration Mr. Roy Padayachie, the Deputy Minister for Public Service and Administration Ms Ayanda Dlodlo, the Director-General of DPSA, Mr Mashwahle Diphofa, the CEO of GEMS, Mr Eugene Watson, Senior Executives, and CPSI Sponsors, Deloitte and Bytes Technology.
Annual CPSI Innovation Conference coming up in August 2012. For more info watch this space...
Please visit the Conference page to access last year's conference presentations.
Chris Hani District Municipality project crowned 2010 All Africa Public Sector Innovator
The CPSI would like to congratulate the seven South African projects that were amongst the finalists at the 2nd All Africa Innovation Awards Ceremony held on Friday 13 May 2011 in Nairobi, Kenya. The event was jointly hosted by Kenya and South Africa.
Trophies and certificates were conferred in three categories: - Innovative Service Delivery Improvement - Innovative Partnerships between Government, Private Sector and Civil Society Organisations - Innovation in the Systems and Processes of Governance
The Blueprint for a Rural Sustainability Commons in South Africa project of the Municipal Health Services at Chris Hani District Municipality won the Category Innovative Partnerships In Service Delivery and was also awarded as Overall winner.
International accolades for the IEC and Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
Most voters during the 2009 provincial and national elections were not even aware of the behind-the-scene innovations put in place by the Independent Electoral Commission (IEC) to safeguard our democracy by ensuring free and fair elections. One such innovation,the electronic result slip scanning project was a category winner in the coveted 2010 CPSI Public Sector Innovation Awards.
It has now also received international recognition as a finalist in the 2010 All Africa Public Sector Innovation Awards and the first place winner for Africa in the category Preventing and Combating Corruption in the Public Service in the 2011 United Nation's Public Service Award.
The UN Awards ceremony was held on 23 June 2011 as part of the Africa and the United Nations Public Service Day celebrations hosted by the Government of Tanzania. Read more ....
At the same ceremony, a second CPSI Public Sector Innovation Award winning department, the Gauteng Department of Agriculture and Rural Development, was also awarded as the first place winner for Africa in the category Advancing Knowledge Management in Government.The department received an award for their Integrated Decision Support project.
Speaking Books Creator and Mental Health Founder Honoured by South African President Zuma with Highest Community Award
The Order of Baobab
For the first time ever, this community award has been bestowed on a mental health NGO. SADAG, the South African Depression and Anxiety Group's Founder, Zane Wilson, was made an Order of the Baobab for "her outstanding contribution as a mental health care practitioner, and a leader in the struggle to create awareness against diseases such as depression and anxiety and her work in the formation of the South African Depression and Anxiety Group?".
Zane Wilson also created an innovative new learning tool, The Speaking Book, to enable low level literacy communities to receive vital health care messages. The books are an interactive, multi-lingual tool that can be seen, read, heard and understood regardless of reading ability and addresses mental health issues such as Depression, Suicide, and Bipolar as well as Malaria, TB, HIV and AIDS and Clinical Trials. The Speaking Books are an affordable African solution for an African problem which is now being used throughout the world in India, China, the USA, South America, and the rest of Africa. For this work Wilson has won the World Bank Award (2003) United Nations Health and Innovation Award (2011).
Celebrating 18 years of mental health and advocacy this year, the South African Depression and Anxiety Group is the country's largest and most recognized mental health initiative. SADAG was established in 1994 in response to the absence of any formal advocacy structure for people with the common and potentially disabling mental health problems of depression, bipolar and anxiety. Since its inception under the visionary leadership of Zane Wilson, it has become the leading advocacy organization in Africa, and it's achievements place it among the most innovative and effective organizations worldwide, says PsychiatristProf Michael Berk.
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2008 CPSI Innovation Awards winner does it again
Phuti Ragophala, principal of Pula-Madibogo Primary School in Limpopo, has been named South Africa's 'Super Teacher of the Year 2011' by the Internet Service Providers` Association of SA (ISPA).
Recognising the growing need for computer skills training and the importance of computer-literate teachers, ISPA established Train the Teacher in December 2001. To date, ISPA has successfully trained some 2238 educators at more than 200 under-resourced and rural schools nationwide.
The annual Super Teacher of the Year Award invited educators to compete with projects through which they can promote and develop computer skills in their own schools and communities.
Twenty-six projects were registered for the competition in the first phase of the awards. Each project was assessed according to the teachers' use of newly-acquired computer skills in their own teaching practice as well as their use of their skills for the benefit of their colleagues, learners or wider community (Source: http://ispa.org.za/).
Phuti is one of the CPSI's innovation champions, having also assisted the Helen Joseph Hospital in Gauteng to establish a very successful perma-culture project and is also supporting other schools and institutions in the region to start sustainable initiatives.
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