Ghost Gatsby Starter - A South African Geek Culture

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#gkVacWork Shaping Tomorrow's Geek Culture

Geekulcha, a platform for over 9 600 ICT young Geeks across the country is build on the basis of creating an active and vibrant tech army to connect, learn, share and put skills to real use. Since 2013, the Geek Culture in South Africa through various tech activities driving Innovation and Creativity. Geekulcha has since won awards in its role for this purpose in South Africa. As the world grow smarter and smarter, there is a need to create a future we want to see. A pipeline is important nurtu

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#gkVacWork Tech Debate: Why #DataMustFall

As part of the programme, a Tech Debate was hosted to stimulate and engage the youngsters in conte, blockchain for the electoral voting system, PoPI act violation in the 4th Industrial Revolution and others. There were 4 debate sessions, each with it's own debate topic to discuss current digital affairs in the country. * S1A vs S1O: This house believes that people should pay TV licences for content on mobile phones * S2A vs S2O: This house believes that the 4th Industrial Revoluti

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#gkVacWork Innovate For The Digital Age

During the April holidays, the Geekulcha Vacation Work (gkVacWork) programme hosted 107 youngsters from different parts of Gauteng for the ICT and Business development programme. The 17th edition of the programme took place at the Codetribe Academy in Tshwane, at The Business Clinic in Johannesburg and bi-weekly at St. Andrews School Ekurhuleni (Bedfordview). The VacWork programme is powered by The Innovation Hub and City of Tshwane in line with the FabLab Youth Innovation school’s programme. “

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#gkVacWork April Set To Start In Gauteng

The Geekulcha 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 Geekulcha crew and community get to redistribute their skills/knowledge with their young ones. Assigned to mentors, the youngsters come up with projects based on the VacWork edition’s theme. Powered by The Innovation Hub [http://www.theinnovationhub.com/], the ypungsters will get to

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Geekulcha Launches A Council of Advisors

Geekulcha is where the young, skilled, creative and ambitious tech minds meet to connect with each other, share knowledge, collaborate on projects, network with industry leaders, obtain training to further improve and enhance their skills and to put that newly acquired skill to work. The platform has over 9 400 students across Africa. The organization saw a need to drive a Geek Culture of Sustainable Innovation and to achieve this mandate, a Geekulcha Council of Advisors was established consist

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Rendani Mmbodi: Digital Education Shift

Hello everyone, my name is Rendani Mmbodi and I am Junior System Developer at Geekulcha, aspiring to be a great System Developer and I love coding, and want to own NGO company to support learners who want to take fields of ICT, I love learning and reading about AI and IoT. Online Learning, There are so many free online learning platform to use nowadays, I use Youtube, Stackoverflow and NPM js to learn many various programming language and to solve a bugs. I acquired experience on teaching youn

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Nkosana Ndlela: AI And Mixed Reality Things in 2018

Hello everyone, my name is Nkosana Ndlela and I am Junior Systems Developer aspiring to be the best Programmer of my field. My story began 2014 when I went for registration at my former university for someone who was new at the place I didn’t understand build numbers, offices which did extent my registration of one day task turning into week, I knew this was a problem most institutions faces. As the world is moving to 4th industrial revolution, well others are saying we are already in the 4th i

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Thato Banda: Appy 2018 to all Developers

Hello fellow developers, my name is Thato Banda. I am a Junior Mobile Applications Developer at Geekulcha, student in Information Technology(Technical Applications) at the Tshwane University of Technology. An aspiring Applications developer. Being a Mobile Apps Developer is one of the greeniest job titles in the 4th Industrial Revolution with more organizations looking into embracing mobility for enterprise solutions. In 2017, I learned these lessons about mobile apps development: Design pa

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Phathutshedzo Khabubu: A Geek Of Note To Lookout For

I am Phathutshedzo "Phathu" Khabubu and I love expressing myself through computers. Computers have been my way of speaking to the world, my route to discovery. They (Computers) led me to discover a tool of expression which is a startup I founded; Colourful Black Pty Ltd that owns The Plug Social Platform and additional startup I co-founded with my brother, called Open Kasi. > Open Kasi is a startup we co-founded at the Geekulcha Hackathon 2017, as a tool for small, medium and micro enterprise t

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#GeeksConnect: Arlene Mulder on Building We Think Code

Born in Pretoria, Arlene Mulder always loved doing things that many people says they can't be done. She has a coding background having learned pascal back in the day and had also acquired experience in the banking sector. Arlene joined us LIVE on the #GeeksConnect show on BrandLive.co.za [http://BrandLive.co.za] for an interview on Digital Education and We Think Code. * Date: 11 January 2018 * Time: 10:34 - 10:52 About We Think Code [https://www.wethinkcode.co.za/]... > Johannesburg based t

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Charles Maruma: Automated Comms and HR Evolution

Hi everyone my name is Charles Maruma. I am a Junior Systems Developer at Geekulcha, Computer Systems Engineering student at the Tshwane University of Technology. I’m passionate about Electronics systems and system development, I work immensely on Electronics systems, smart Tech and Machine Learning solutions. I’m aspiring to become one of the top Computer Engineers in the country. A Chatbot is a computer program designed to simulate conversation with human users, especially over the Internet.

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Lloyd Mafoo: IoT Social Innovation ko Kasi

Hello everyone, my name is Lloyd Mafoo and I am a junior Systems Developer, a final year student in Computer Systems Engineering at Tshwane University of Technology, I develop Internet of Things (IoT) and Robotics solution for social good. I came up with a solution to develop a monitoring system for my final year project at TUT the concept came about because of the township I live at which is Mamelodi. The solution I came up with is called Kasi Rader Environment Monitoring System. Kasi Rader En