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May 24, 2021
The winners have been announced of the Gov-X Innovation Challenge, a three-month challenge that saw teams of young innovators working to overcome cybersecurity and online risks.
The challenge was a public-private sector collaboration in which over 90 ideas were submitted in March this year, and the top eight teams then entered a qualifying round where they were mentored by some of South Africa’s top cybersecurity experts.
Working with the CyberSecurity Hub and the Department of Communications and Digital Technologies, the University of the Western Cape: Future-Innovation Lab partnered with KnowBe4, TrendMicro, BCX, Bi-Technologies, Vox Telecom, NClose, Black Rhino, and Bi-Tech Africa to host the Gov-X Innovation Challenge.
ReNAPRI and PRCI: Planning for Policy Success
With assistance from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy, Research, Capacity, and Influence (PRCI) the Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes (ReNAPRI) has created and implemented a new strategic plan. Jim Monahan - Email
With assistance from the Feed the Future Innovation Lab for Food Security Policy, Research, Capacity, and Influence (PRCI) the Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes (ReNAPRI) has created and implemented a new strategic plan.
Through the implementation of a new strategic plan, the Regional Network of Agricultural Policy Research Institutes (ReNAPRI) is forging impactful policy research in Africa with support from the
Samsung and UWC strengthen partnership to tackle youth skills development The first graduates of the Samsung Future-Innovation Lab at the University of the Western Cape begin pioneering careers in ICT 05 May 2021 - 11:00 Sponsored Image: Supplied/Samsung
After the launch of Samsung’s R280m Equity Equivalent Investment Programme (EEIP), Samsung SA and the University of the Western Cape (UWC) officially opened the Samsung Future-Innovation Lab on the UWC campus in Cape Town in March 2020.
The Future-Innovation Lab aims to provide an opportunity to previously disadvantaged youth (age 18 to 35) to gain skills in software development and digital social innovation.
Samsung SA, in partnership with UWC, launched the web and mobile software development training programme which focuses on building digital innovation skills for unemployed youth in SA. Aligned with Samsung’s global mission of “enabling people”, the Samsung Future-Innovation Lab is aimed