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The Minister of Communications, Ms Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, welcomes the swift action taken by the Presidential Commission on the Fourth Industrial Revolution to concretise its workplan. On Saturday, 8 June 2019, the Commission held its first work session at the University of Johannesburg, to develop a high-level roadmap towards achieving its set objectives; as well as to establish and assign technical workstreams.

The Commission has committed to produce the strategy document to guide South Africa’s 4IR Vision by March 2020; this will be preceded by a broad consultative process with relevant stakeholders. The commissioners further established and assigned the workstreams as follows:

• The Infrastructure and Resources workstream will be chaired by Andile Ngcaba.
• The Research, Technology and Innovation workstream will be chaired by Dr Thulani Dlamini.
• The Economic and Social impact workstream will be chaired by Mr Rob Shutter.
• The workstream on Human Capital and the Future of Work will chaired by Ms Beth Arendse.
• The workstream on Industrialisation and Commercialisation will be chaired by Ms Nomvula Mkhonza.
• The Policy and Legislation workstream will be chaired by Ms Charmaine Houvet.
   

The 31-member Commission was established by President Cyril Ramaphosa and is mandated to advise government on 4IR policies, develop a framework for implementation of a multi-sectoral 4IR strategy; and coordinate, monitor and evaluate multi-sectoral initiatives that will position South Africa as a globally competitive player in 4IR.

The commission is set to meet with its chairperson, President Ramaphosa within the next few months.

Issued by Government Communication and Information System