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Africa Code Week 2018 touched over 2 mln young Africans
Africa Code Week (ACW) 2018 exceeded all expectations by empowering 2.3 million youth across 37 countries with digital and coding skills – compared to 1.3 million youth engaged across 35 African countries in the previous edition. According to Cathy Smith,…
Interview: Why immersive learning is the next big thing
Immersive learning is set to reshape how the world learns using technology, and to keep up, South Africa is urged to embrace this tech-type of learning or risk being left behind. This type of learning could fundamentally change the way…
Data science introduced to South African high schoolers for the first time
The EXPLORE Data Science Academy (EDSA) has announced an online course and a series of data science competitions aimed at making ‘job future’ skills available to South African high school students in another local first. In late 2017, the EDSA…
Adapt IT to expand footprint in the Australasian education sector
Adapt IT has announced that it will acquire the business of Kura Holdings Proprietary Limited (“Kura”), Wisenet Information Systems Proprietary Limited, (“Wisenet Australia”), Wise.Net Corporate Trustee Limited (“Wisenet NZ”), the business intellectual property (“IP”) and existing IP rights of Wakatipu…
Support SA youth to launch their tech careers
In December 2018 at the CapaCiTi campus in Salt River, Cape Town, 340 young South Africans completed their technical training and received their certificates. They are now ready to be placed within tech internships in Cape Town and Johannesburg. CapaCiTi,…
How immersive learning will reshape the world of tech
Immersive learning will fundamentally change the way young South Africans absorb information, and forms an integral part of the learning revolution the country needs to embark on to keep up with the demands of the future. According to Marco Rosa,…
Have you ever considered a career in testing?
While technical skills are a prerequisite if you are an IT product, solution or system tester, a broader skill set is required if you want to be truly successful. According to Mandla Mbonambi, CEO of Africonology, many people mistakenly think…
South African students excel in Huawei’s Seeds for the Future programme
Seeds for the Future was a life-changing experience, from learning Mandarin in Beijing to building a 4G network in a Huawei laboratory in Shenzhen, meeting and connecting with fellow African ICT students from Nigeria and Ivory Coast, my world has…
Data science needs to embrace African context and work for greater good
Harnessing data science for the greater good and the need for technology to encompass the African context were the key themes in the address by development economist and radio presenter Ayabonga Cawe. Cawe was speaking at the Explore Data Science…
Libya space camp scholarship program open for entries
The U.S. Embassy and Libya are now accepting applications for the 2019 U.S.-Libya Space Camp Scholarship Program that will give Libyan students and educators the opportunity to challenge themselves in an elite training centre designed for the top scientists and astronauts from around the world. The U.S. Embassy, in…
Accenture, JCSE partner to help prepare South African youth for the future of work
Accenture has partnered with the Tshimologong Digital Innovation Precinct and the Joburg Centre for Software Engineering (JCSE), to provide both training and job opportunities to vulnerable youth for the future of work. This year’s activities culminated in Hour of Code,…
South Africa: 6 students selected for supercomputing competition in Germany
The annual Centre for High-Performance Computing (CHPC) conference, which took place in Cape Town recently, provided a platform for South African students to showcase their skills in building supercomputers and their innovative ideas on how to prevent cybercrimes through the…
Global start-up launches innovation hub in Johannesburg
Startup Guide, the global guide for startups in high-growth innovation hubs in Europe, the US and Middle East, is open to nominations in Johannesburg. Founded in 2014, Startup Guide is a creative content and publishing company that produces guidebooks and…
Sasol Energy invests in math labs for Manyano High School
Sasol Energy has partnered with the SA Medical & Education (SAME) Foundation to renovate and equip mathematics laboratories at the Manyano High School in Khayelitsha, Western Cape as part of South Africa’s 2030 education goals set out in the National…
GE Nigeria launches e-learning portal
Digital industrial company, GE launched an e-learning portal on Thursday, 06 December 2018 for its Lagos Garage advanced manufacturing training program with the objective of extending the training program’s reach to thousands of Nigerians across the country. The portal was…
Skills development is key to Industry 4.0
The Fourth industrial revolution has the potential to disrupt every industry in every country through large-scale automation, adoption of emergent technologies, big data and artificial intelligence. According to Chief Director of Future Production Technologies at the Department of Trade and Industry…
