Its without doubt that the current initiative is not government-led but a coalition of advocacy work across all sectors including government.
In my opinion, the common purpose is to want to foster localisation and innovation of technologies so that our people in general and including government do not become merely consumers of technology amidst the 4IR.
Dr Andile Ngcaba (Chair-designate Dimansion Data) has been advocating fiercely for FOSS in the 4IR and perhaps at some stage we need people of his stature to support our initiative.