Sector Skills Planning Tebogo Makgatho Gallagher Estates August 2002

THE FACTS… ISETT covers IT,Telecoms and Electronics Approximately 6800 companies in the ISETT sector Approximately 3500 are registered with SARS and pay the levy

Grant Participation F/Y 1, 2 and 3

Unallocated funds F/Y 2001/2 Unclaimed funds from all grants 27 Projects awarded to the value of R33m Projects addressing a number of objectives –Computer literacy –Rural –Women –High-end skills (CISCO, S/W Programming ) –Telecommunications skills –AIDS awareness –Maths and Science etc

Skills development projects Both unallocated funds & Management initiatives

Matrix of skills projects Area of skillImpactInterventionProvinceCommitment Maths and Science1500 Saturday and holiday classes EC KZN Venda Gauteng NW R 5 m SDF175 Masters Diploma 3 Day w/shops CountrywideR 2 m Software dev105 Java, C++, VB, HTMLWC KZN Limpopo Gauteng R 4m Computer literacy2000 Computer literacy Gauteng FS MPL R 4.3m HIV Awareness9000 WorkshopsCountrywide R 0.8 m SMME Dev500 Mentorship Business skillsCountry wide R 2.5 m Technology bus44000Awareness, literacy EC R 1.8m Retrenched workers 500Telecomms techCoutrywideR 1.7 m Telecoms law25Telecomms regulationsGautengR 0.5 m Telecentres2000Computer literacy FS MPL KZN R 2.7m ABET100ABET EC R 0.2m Networking180A+,MCSE, Cisco NC R 1m Telecoms skills/ Electronic skills 1125 Postgraduate Technicians Calibration Rural telecoms Limpopo Countrywide R 15.2m

Sector skills projects Projects worth R42m ( social responsibility and unallocated funds) Impact on more than people – 70% youth Countrywide Largely address concept of additionality Most will lead to job creation – either short term or long term Aim to bridge the digital divide Across spectrum – to address both NSDS objectives and SSP

Future sector needs – New Sector Skills planning Sectoral strategy document that will map efforts w.r.t. skills development in the sector Input data –Various research reports International benchmarking study WSP aggregated report SMME needs analysis Career guidance report Skills audit/ collection of labour market stats –Workshops/ Focus groups –Desktop research SSP Committee / Stakeholder Board

Key Findings ICT Labour market statistics / Skills audit Key input to the updated SSP

Total employees & ICT users by chamber – ISETT Sector 212,000 employees and 186,400 ICT users IT chamber makes up 63% of ISETT Sector employees The electronics chamber has the lowest % of ICT users

ICT Users per Occupational category – ISETT sector

ICT Users by SOC and Gender More males than females in most categories except Admin support and low level technology users Large emphasis should be on training for females

ICT Users by SOC and Race Manager/supervisor has large % of white males Admin support has large % of white females EE not being implemented

Profile of the ICT Employee ProfileISETTNon-ISETT DemographicsAverage Age20-30 year old GenderMale RaceWhite Union RepresentationNo representation Length of serviceMore than 2 years Worked overseasNo Intend working overseas Yes Highest qualificationsNational diploma

Way Forward Workshops / Focus groups to discuss recommendations/strategy –19,21,22 August 2002 Briefing session on the findings –27 August 2002 Complete SSP by November 2002

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