Ghost Gatsby Starter - A South African Geek Culture

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Startup Grind Pretoria: The Art Of Branding

Startup Grind [https://www.startupgrind.com/] is the largest independent startup community, actively educating, inspiring, and connecting more than 1,500,000 entrepreneurs in over 500 chapters. We nurture startup ecosystems in 125 countries through events, media, and partnerships with organizations like Google for Startups. The cornerstone of our global community are monthly events featuring successful local founders, innovators, educators and investors who share lessons learned on the road to

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VOTE: Geekulcha Nominated For 3 International Awards - WSIS Prizes 2019

WSIS Prizes is a unique international contest developed in response to requests from the WSIS stakeholders to create an effective mechanism to evaluate and recognize individuals, governments, civil society, local, regional and international agencies, research institutions and private-sector companies for outstanding success in implementing development oriented strategies that leverage the power of ICTs as an enabler of the development. The WSIS Prizes contest is an integral part of the WSIS s

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#gkVacWork: Building On The Value of Mentorship

It was a cold and dry morning of a late winter Monday, the Geeks were exhausted after having survived 42 hours of Code at the 2014th Geekulcha Annual Hackathon. The birds were singing and flying in what would be assumed as a cordinated flow to possibly caution the Geeks in Tshwane to Code with to tidiness. Cloud Computing had not gone fully mainstream by then It was then when the Geekulcha Vacation Work programme was formed. Four enthusiastic young minds were to Spend Holidays with the Geeks, b

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#Top15YoungGeeks: Nominations Open For 2019

Geek is the new cool! Geek is the new sexy! These are the things you would hear on the digital streets. Geeks have changed the world as we know it, there is no joy they enjoy than making cool tech that matters. The year 2018 saw the South African Geek Culture getting a boost with Minister Ayanda Dlodlo LIVE Coding in front over 200 Geeks and also spent time assessing Midnight pitches at the Public Service Hackathon. Minister Stella Ndabeni-Abrahams, known as the "4IR Commander-In-Chief" address

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#SummerDevDays: Local Coders Gather To Code The 4IR

As the South African tech ecosystem grows at own pace with various activities taking place on the ground, we need to assess, monitor, nurture, account, guide and forecast the grow of the digital ecosystem. Summer Developer Days (#SummerDevDays) is a 2-day of coding where one learns from the community and gets rewarded on the effort. Hosted by the UNISA School of Computing and Geekulcha, the aim was to create an enabling environment for local techies to connect and build capacity on their skills

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#SummerDevDays To Build Quality Coding Capacity

Throughout the years, the UNISA School of Computing (Pro Bono) has collaborated with Geekulcha, driving community developer days in growing tech skills and socially-relevant innovation challenges such as the Random Hacks of Kindness(RHOK) Pretoria hackathon. The South African tech ecosystem grows at own pace with various activities taking place on the ground. We need to assess, monitor, nurture, account, guide and forecast the grow of the digital ecosystem. Summer Developer Days ( #SummerDevDay

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#gkVacWork Kicks Off In Prieska

The Youth VacWork program takes in a number of high scholars to a simulated and co-creative working environment, get trained and build projects with ICT tools. Youngsters spend their Holidays With The Geeks, the Northern Cape crew and community get to redistribute theirskills/knowledge with the young ones. > What a wow, we have just reached 78 learners at this year's #gkVackWork [https://twitter.com/hashtag/gkVackWork?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw] & we're still growing. #gkVackWork [https://twi

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#gkVacWork Prieska To Build A Green Pipeline

We live in the buble of the 4th Industrial Revolution, everything is changing, as slowly as it may be - our world is getting smarter and smarter. We have to ask ourselves on readiness of this shift. Digital skills are a necessity for what we are gearing ourselves into. In 2014, Geekulcha established a hands-on skills redistribution programme - the VacWork to get young people coding and build tech startups. Since then, over 850 scholars took about and 6 startups resulted. > #gkVacWork [https://

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#Top15YoungGeeks - Meet Mzwakhe Besho

A well preserved young man, prides himself in doing his work to his utmost abilities. He always push himself to the ultimate limit when it comes to school work. Mzwakhe has fully dedicated himself to try his best to ensure that he helps his fellow peers to achieve. He at times like to treat the ladies with extra special attention because he believes that we need more female achievers in our country. > Appreciate the past, utilize the present and don't be afraid to create the future. Dear Sou

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#Top15YoungGeeks - Meet Phathutshedzo Khabubu

Phathutshedzo Khabubu, a co-founder of the startups called Open Kasi and The Plug Social Platform, most importantly he is a developer by passion but the most interesting part of that he has learnt how to build software through platforms like youtube, Microsoft Virtual Academy and applied his skills through programs that Geekulcha offers. > My greatest glory is not in never failing but in every time I raise. * Confucius Dear South African Geeks: Right now we have more power at our finger tip

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#Top15YoungGeeks - Meet Henry Chen

Henry took his first step by attending Hackathon while in Grade 10 in the Northern Cape. Once you made the first step, everything will be clear for you. He always pushed his limit, to reach another level as a Geek through technologies such as AI, IoT, Robot, and software, to apply them in real life. > So proud of Henry, coming all the way from Kimberley killing at #GKHack17 [https://twitter.com/hashtag/GKHack17?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw]. We have been mentoring him since 2015 through #NCDev

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#Top15YoungGeeks - Meet Frannest Toll

Frannest Toll is a 20 year old Information Technology student at the Cape Peninsula University of Technology. He also a Network marketer as well as a cryptocurrency investor. He's implementing a program where he wants to get the youth of my area into programming. He always had a passion for the Information Technology industry and believes that he'll become one of the leaders in this industry. He will persue his doctorate of Information Technology. > If you can't take a little bloody nose, may