5. Achievement registered under this proramme related to the development of a Government Wide Information Security Governance Framework, connection of 46 Thusong Service Centres to a centralized ICT infrastructure. A report on the ICT Expenditure patterns in the public service was concluded, with recommendations on strategies to save/reduce costs/expenditure. In addition, the Department reported that an Architecture blue-print for IT was still work in progress and provinces were being consulted.