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The Media Development and Diversity Agency's (MDDA) mandate and objectives are to: create an enabling environment for media development and diversity that reflects the needs and aspirations of all South Africans; redress exclusion and marginalisation of disadvantaged communities and persons from access to the media and the media industry; promote media development and diversity by providing support primarily to community and small commercial media projects; encourage ownership and control of, and access to, media by historically disadvantaged communities, as well as by historically diminished indigenous language and cultural groups; encourage the development of human resources and training, and capacity building within the media industry, especially among historically disadvantaged groups; encourage the channelling of resources to the community media and small commercial media sectors; raise public awareness with regard to media development and diversity issues, and liaise with other statutory bodies such as the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) and the Universal Service and Access Agency of South Africa (USAASA).

The National Electronic Media Institute of South Africa (NEMISA), in collaboration with the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies (DCDT), is focused on the implementation of programmes for the development of the required skills and competencies to leverage the power of modern ICTs in South Africa, thereby contributing to socio-economic development, improving service delivery and improving competitiveness through ICTs. NEMISA's mission is to provide a national integrated e-skills development approach for sustainable socio-economic development in South Africa and to radically advance human capacity development in e-skills (digital skills).