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#ODDPretoria - Open Data for Financial Insight

The Centre for Geoinformation Science and Geekulcha invites you to: Show me the money! An open data rummage to track public spending Join our search for insight into public spending. This event is to celebrate International Open Data Day, and promote the value of open data by engaging with the local community. During this event, you will be asked to answer various questions from provided datasets relating to public spending. For example, what percentage of the budget in 2017 is allocated for b

Digital Journey of the Northern Cape Province

We all agree that there is a need of a Digital Transformation to help civilization adapt to the Industrial Evolution being accelerated by the Internet Economy. The world is moving on and getting more things connected. No one wants to be left behind. Various cities have set out their Industrial Development Plans (IDP) and are ready to execute towards being a smart city. The Northern Cape province have realized the need to cultivate ICT and SME skills development in creating a vibrant and active

Open Data Day - Kathu

Open Data Day is a gathering of citizens in cities around the world to write applications, liberate data, create visualizations and publish analyses using open public data to show support for and encourage the adoption of open data policies by the world's local, regional and national governments. > Open data is data that can be freely used, shared and built-on by anyone, anywhere, for any purpose. Kathu is a town in South Africa, and the iron ore capital of the Northern Cape province. Its nam

Building a Digital Kasi at #gkVacWork

Preparing and securing the skills of tomorrow means equipping young people with the relevant skills that will enable them to bring change in the world. Geekulcha, The Innovation Hub [https://www.mlab.co.za/] and mLab Southern Africa [https://www.mlab.co.za/] have been a hosting a vacation work programme for high school learners during school holidays. This time around, the programme returns to Soweto to grow ICT and Entrepreneurship skills capacity onto the youngsters, 30 - 06 December. Program

Innov8Makers for Business Sense

In collaboration with The Innovation Hub [http://www.theinnovationhub.com], the Geekulcha Maker Library Network [http://design.britishcouncil.org/projects/makerlibraries/geekulcha/] hosted an event dedicated for Makers. Innov8 is a high-level networking event bringing expert matters and enthusiasts together to discuss best practices, celebrating and accelerating innovation. This edition of Innov8 was focused on South African MakerSpace ecosystems to help makers connect and make business. Hoste

Getting Geeky On #AfricaCodeWeek

Africa as a developing continent, needs to secure all the right skills as possible - coding is one of those skills. One of the initiatives behind this is the Africa Code Week [http://africacodeweek.org/] supported by Google. Coding is the literacy of the digital age indeed: a whole new language for children to speak fluently and express themselves in the 21st century. This is what brought SAP, the Cape Town Science Centre and the Galway Education Centre to join forces and give birth to Africa C

#gkVacWork October 2016

Yet another VacWork programme for high school learners took place to train and enable youngsters build products/services through ICT, 03 - 07 October. This time, the programme focused on building healthcare systems for this smartb growing world. About 30 youngsters from around Gauteng sacrificed their early morning sleep to Spend Holidays with the Geeks by attending the work-simulated programme aimed at building the Digital Capacity and skills needed for the world of tomorrow, today. Attendin

Open Data Debate at #EMMHack

Data, a very popular trend right now and everyone is trying to understand and master the skill of working with data. Municipalities in particular, are gaining momentum in the Open Data movement. Essentially, Open Data refers to data that is freely available, can be accessed, used and changed by anyone. There are civic tech organizations in South Africa championing the Open Data movement. Ekurhuleni Metropolitan Municipality (EMM) is among the cities opening up data for the public around the wo

Mpumalanga Got Geekulchad

Geekulcha is a platform for ICT students where they connect, learn, share and put skills to real use. We are always looking for ways to reach to more students and empower the youth. University of Mpumalanga (UMP) [http://www.ump.ac.za/] is one of the newest universities and they invited the Geeks to come through. Consisting of 3-day workshops, Geekulcha crew visited the University with a mission to establish a Geekulcha Student Society (GKSS) at UMP. > University of Mpumalanga studnets worki

Maker Librarians at Decorex 2016

Decorex SA, South Africa’s premier décor, design and lifestyle exhibition showcases in three cities –Durban, Cape Town and Joburg. The décor and design industry’s leading and most trusted brand was founded in 1994, and continues to play a pivotal role in shaping the industry. In Johannesburg, Decorex is taking place 05 - 09 August at the Gallagher Convention Centre. Grow the Maker Movement, Ms Mia Van Zyl of the South African Makers Collective led the Makers Corner at the Decorex Johannesburg

August - Geekulcha Tours 5 Provinces

As a busy as a Geek! If we are not coding, we are out there on the ground to hear and helping empower the people. Spreading and building a community of Geeks across the country with various partners. Geekulcha will be touring 5 provinces and invites to you join in if you are around these ares: Gauteng - Sebokeng As part of the National Science Week 2016, we are joining the ArcelorMittal Science Centre for this year's edition. Date: 08 - 12 August Venue: 4 Samuel Street, Sebokeng, 1983 > Tha

Geeking Out At VUT Open Day

> Vaal University of Technology is a tertiary institution in South Africa. It attracts students from all over the country. It is one of the largest residential Universities of Technology, with about 15,000 students, 300 programs, all primarily taught in English. > The campus and facilities are conducive to learning, research, recreation and sport, art and culture, and community service. As read from wikipedia [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vaal_University_of_Technology] On the 23rd of July,