First journal after meeting the agency

Last week, we had a very short meeting with Susi about our project. Susi Masi is the chief project officer of the department of the premier and cabinet. She mainly in charge of this program and keep connection with us.

Before meeting her, we have an internal meeting. We clarified several questions about our program, such as “What is eGovernment?” “How the departments use the eGoverment?” “Why they need such a website?” etc.

eGovernment is a website of the government of SA to provide service to people. Each department takes up one part of the website. WSo, when people need service, they need to go to the website and find the right department to solve for them.

After the discussion, we still have some parts that don’t understand. So, we prepared the following questions to her:

• existing funding model  * 2
•  gov & Squiz
• gov & departments 
• if yes, what is the overall objection that needs to be addressed?
• if not, then what are the parties included in the working between working between the each entity & eGov.
• the underlying tech handling the contents
• historical change made on the system
• How are you using now?
• What are the existing problems now?
• What you expect us to improve the model in the future.
• The structure of the departments.

After the meeting, we are a little bit more clarified about our jobs.

The only thing she wants us to do is to make a SLA between the government and the agencies. SLA should help the government to determine the details using the website between the agencies and the egovernment. We need to further analyze the structure of the government and the website. Also, we need to analyze the existing SLA.

Considering it’s our first meeting, Susi didn’t prepare much about that. So, she arranged us a second meeting. We prepared some more questions for the next arrangement.

Although the project is not that comprehensive, we still can use our knowledge from the class in practice. I hope next meeting we will make more progress by starting making the SLA for the government.