The CSIR recently announced the signing of a three-year, multi-million dollar contract with Transnet National Ports Authority (TNPA) for the maintenance of existing Datawell Waveriders and wind stations at all eight existing ports. The two organisations...
South Africans have been urged to become more energy efficient, change their behaviour and make use of complementary energy sources, as South Africa experiences further load shedding and grid outages. Taking control of electricity in households by installing...
December 11, 2018 •
Education •
Fundi Maseko •
Comments Off on 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...
A research report released by Ericsson has provided a perspective on how 5G can be realized in Africa. The ‘Making 5G a reality for Africa’ report, which was conducted in collaboration with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR)...
July 12, 2018 •
General, Internet of Things •
NetAdmin •
Comments Off on Small businesses in South Africa critical to the 4th Industrial Revolution
Small businesses will be critical to South Africa in the 4th industrial revolution while access to information will revolutionize education. This was highlighted at a panel discussion in Midrand on Thursday (5 July). The topic debated was: “Is South Africa...
July 11, 2018 •
General •
NetAdmin •
Comments Off on The three biggest AI challenges businesses face
Artificial intelligence (AI) is becoming pervasive in everyday life but many businesses still apply AI for the sake of AI, rather than for the sake of real business value. This was one of the main messages to emerge from the SAS Road to Artificial...
Nearly two years have passed since The Centre for High Performance Computing (CHPC) of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) chose Mellanox FDR InfiniBand to assist it in its goal of providing high-end computing resources to the South...
Google, WAPA, and partners today announced the outcomes of a successful TVWS trial with ten schools in the Cape Town area that began in March this year. TV White Spaces are unused channels in the broadcast TV spectrum that offer the potential to improve...
The Intellectual Property Rights Act has introduced important conditions in South Africa for the commercialisation of Intellectual Property and will impact operations across a number of industries and sectors. A carefully thought-out intellectual property...
The Innovation Hub, Africa’s first internationally accredited Science and Technology Park and a full member of the International Association of Science Parks (IASP), calls on entrepreneurs and researchers to enter the Gauteng Accelerator Programme (GAP)...
The concept to establish a centralised, technology-focused entrepreneurial community in South Africa’s Gauteng Province was first discussed in 2001. Four years later the foundations for a Science and Technology Park, the Innovation Hub, were put in place...
