Ghost Gatsby Starter - A South African Geek Culture

Mentor A Geek

Many of us grew up in villages and we still remember the way of life in a village: Your child is my child and my child is your child. You can't leave an African home without eating anything and as much as we hated those taboos "swiyila", deep down we know that they were meant to protect and build us. Grandmothers/fathers have been great mentors of life hacks through Indigenous Knowledge for us to be where we are. Can indigenous Knowledge and Social Activism drive us in building the country's c

#SkillsMustRise

We are currently experiencing one of the greatest revolutions of our times, students standing up on their belief to say: #FeesMustFall. The support behind the Free Education movement has been tremendous. Education is important because we all need to get the adequate skills to enable greatness in our lives. Through the #FeesMustFall movement, a lot of questions arose such as "How much does it cost to produce a graduate in South Africa?", "Are South African universities spending too much to produ

Africa CheckOut: Scofray Nana Yaw Yeboah

Transformational Coach and Brand Expert Scofray Nana Yaw Yeboah ranked 21st Most Influential Young Ghanaian for 2015 Avance Media and associate conducted a poll of ranking 50 Most influential Young Ghanaian which was made up of creme de la creme young women and men across about 10 categories. Scofray Nana Yaw Yeboah was ranked 21sf among the poll of 50 other equally influential Young Ghanaians. He was ranked 9th by Speakers bureau Ghana and motivational speakers network in same 2015, He was

2016: Rise of the Geeks

Last year was quite eventful for Geekulcha. Through hosting a multitude of successful hackathons, initiatives and launching the Northern Cape Developer (NCDev) Ecosystem, Geekulcha was able to grow its footprint. Although it was challenging, many lessons have been learned and we as a team are now equipped to come into 2016 with machines blazing. Our hackathons are a platform for people to identify current issues, showcase their skills, and create business opportunities that are economically via

Summer Dev Days In Kimberley

Being a developer these days requires keeping up with time, the industry and simply Getting Stuff Done. More often than not, here at Geekulcha we tell people to live by the code. This year we established a Northern Cape leg of Geekulcha that is stimulating, cultivating and driving a Geek Culture in the province. With the Northern Cape Department of Economic Development and Tourism [http://economic.ncape.go.za] (DEDaT), it is our goal to grow the Developer/Maker momentum in the province. Through

Makers Quest To Find Business Sense

Basically, the basic idea in the Tech world is to basically keep interest in big and emerging technologies that will basically disrupt our world as we basically know it. The Intel RealSense 3D camera is amongst those upcoming technologies in South Africa to create a futuristic world, "this is where it all changes" as promoted with everybody's favourite nerd, Sheldon Cooper! Geekulcha Electronics (Maker initiative) decided to host an Intel RealSense seminar that aimed at finding Business Sense

Data Fans Find Sense In Open Data

Data, Data, Data! A lot of data, all around us, in many forms, there is a whole lot of it. Why should we care? Is it even available to us? What we need is Open Data, data that is freely available to use and can be distributed by anyone, machines or a set of sensors. Our friends at Code4SA [http://www.code4sa.org] are on a mission to establish a National Open Data portal [http://dgz.code4sa.org]. To get the momentum going, Code4SA drove Open Data Quest workshops in Cape Town, Durban and Pretori

Intel Empowers TUT Student Developers

First 10 months in the country, Intel Corporation South Africa (Software and Services) has been on a journey across the student communities and various institutions enabling and empowering developers. Geekulcha as a platform for ICT students, has been helping Intel on this journey including finding their first Intel Student Partners (ISPs) in universities such as TUT, UNISA and UJ. On the 17th, the Intel Student Partners at the Tshwane University of Technology hosted a workshop for 52 students

Geeking Out At KDC

What happens when your system is running on Geek Juice? You live and breathe Technology and impact? You see the world as a connected thing and think it can be smarter? These are similar symptoms that the Geekulcha Geeks had and went all out to attend the Skateboarding World Championships - the Kimberley Diamond Cup [kimberleydiamondcup.com]. Geekulcha and the Northern Cape Department of Economic Development and Tourism are making skateboards smart and cooler through Maker activities at KDC. Ge

IBM Bluemix at TUT

Did somebody say student skills development? Now you are speaking our language and we had heed a call from IBM South Africa [http://www.ibm.com/za/en/] to reach out to students with their Bluemix [http://ibm.biz/BluemixZA] platform. Tshwane University of Technology is home to some of the coolest Geeks we know and we saw it cool starting out with them. In this modern world of the ICT world, you hear things such as Cloud, Cloud Computing! What's all this exactly? Does it matter and why should we

Ticket to Tech4Africa 2015

Want to attend one of the biggest conferences in Africa with top industry leaders? Here is an opportunity for students to get free tickets to attend Tech4Africa [http://tech4africa.com/] conference 07 - 08 October at the FNB Stadium, Soccer City. Win a ticket by posting (Twitter, Facebook, or Instagram) the best post with any of the following questions with the topic #hashtag and #tech4africa #iBlameGK: 1. #t4aSpeakers Who are your favourite 5 speakers for Tech4Africa 2015? 2. #SAInnovati

Tech4Africa announces a Startup Day of “in the trenches intel”, by entrepreneurs, for entrepreneurs

Tech4Africa seems to be opening it’s own remit by adding Yet Another Startup Event (let’s call it YASE), on the 9th October and after the main Tech4Africa event. Do we really need yet another one? Says Gareth Knight, the founder of Tech4Africa and a serial entrepreneur himself: "We actually started out doing this with SeedCamp, way back in 2010. The consumer and investor market definitely wasn’t as bouyant then as it is now. Since then there’s been this wave of events happening on everything Le