Ghost Gatsby Starter - A South African Geek Culture

No one ever rallies around a conference call.

Social media? What's in it for you and your business? Our guest blogger, Mr Vinay Naran gives some insights around the subject. Decided to randomly browse through my previous post this evening – Yes I am aware of how socially active my lifestyle is. A certain paragraph however had me not go any further. Read it, read it again, thought, considered, visualized, read it again, thought and stopped….."wait a min" I mumbled to myself, “this is actually bigger than we think it to be, deeper than just

Technology, a male dominated industry?

We all know that people vaguely understand IT unless they’re in it. For some reason, everyone assumes that if you’re in IT that must mean you fix computers. We need to inform people on the different roles that are available to both men and women in IT. Society still remains very much uninformed when coming to the opportunities available in the field. When you were a young girl growing up did you picture yourself as a .Net developer in a cubicle? Probably not. Many times we see “the IT guys” wit

RHoK Pretoria 2013

For those of you who still don’t know what RHoK is all about, Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global initiative that is primarily aimed at merging a wide community of innovators to collectively to make the world a better place via socially relevant computing. During the past weekend, two RHoK hackathons took place in Johannesburg and Pretoria simultaneously, and I was privileged to be one of the RHoK Pretoria student participants. So what exactly did we do? Shortly after arrival on Satur

Meet Keitumetsi

Hello everyone, Keitumetsi here. IT fanatic, soon to be graduate, lover of food and full time optimist. I’m the new addition to the crew and, might I add, I am super excited. I’m looking forward to sharing my opinions and hearing yours about the modernization that Information technology has to offer. I was introduced to Geekulcha by Griff (@macgriffiths), a fellow IT enthusiast that I attend varsity with at the University of Johannesburg. Taken by the idea of bringing a better IT experience to

TedxPretoria

On the 27th of September we had the first ever TedxPretoria which was hosted at The Innovation Hub. It was my first ever Tedx event but definitely not the last. Being part of the TedxPretoria organizing team was really something special, a great honor and plenty of fun. It had to be lots of with Linda “The Circus Master” Swart at the helm So what is Tedx? TEDx was created in the spirit of TED’s mission, “ideas worth spreading.” The program is designed to give communities, organizations and indi

GDG Wits Hack Session

Jozihub hosted the most fun-packed event, the GDG hackathon session, which was filled with passionate devs who came in with one goal in mind,to build a complete front end and back-end website for the user.from design-development-deployment.It proved to be a challenge to work as a team,especially with different personalities and style of work. I was in a team of six and so was pretty much everyone else more or less and so began the strategy of seeing who would "come out on top". [http://www.geek

Youth, Entrepreneurs, Graduates, Jobs, Unemployment

I am an unemployed youth…IS THERE A FUTURE FOR ME?

One of the greatest challenges facing our beloved country is the rate of unemployment. Let's face it,it's not going to end anytime soon. There is a growing debate on whether the government is doing enough to create jobs for the youth and also for the general public. Another challenge that comes to mind, even though some see it as an excuse by big corporates,is that we are in an economic crisis and instead companies are letting people go than hiring them. As a young South African I must admit

Life, Success, Youth

Fortune Favours The Brave

Life will knock you down, tear you apart and drive you insane. Sucking you dry of all the little motivation and desire left in you to push on. Leaving you depressed, hopeless and ready to give up. Question is what do you intend to do about it? Depressing I know, that’s the reality many are facing, including myself. It’s not the best of feelings because we humans don’t like feeling useless and hopeless. Yet most of us feel that way which affects our productivity, our health and relationships w

Students, Online Communities, Startup Weekend, Mobile, Innovation, Information technology, Girls in Tech, Africa tech

Geekulcha EXPLAINED!!!

Geekulcha this! Geekulcha that! I come across a lot of people who want to know about this Geekulcha [https://www.facebook.com/Geekulcha] thing. They usually want to know what it is. What does it do? Where is it based? How can they become part of it? How different is it from INNOvatorz.IT [https://www.facebook.com/groups/innovatorz/]? Let me break it down Geekulcha is a vibrant young tech company which I founded and it’s incubated at mLab. We had to go through a re-branding phase from INNOvato