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International Strategy to Develop Technology Capability in South Africa through the Clean Development Mechanism

by Vuyani Lingela and Thomas Laemmer-Gamp
Introduction
Mobile phones have become the communication devices of choice for people who do not have access to telecommunication lines, particularly in developing countries, as well as for people who require the convenience associated with mobile telecommunication. It is also possible that renewable energy sources can become the electricity generation means [...]

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State of the Future Report

The 2010 State of the Future report has been released and is available to interested parties at a cost of R375 per book. Among the regular sections in the ninety page State of the Future report are the annually updated analyses of the fifteen key global challenges, as well as the publication of the State [...]

July 26th, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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Innovation and R&D in the South African Automotive Sector Seminar

The Wits Business School (WBS) are hosting a workshop on Innovation and R&D in SA’s Automotive sector. For further information and RSVP details, Lwazi Ndlovu from Wits Business School Marketing can be contacted on 011 717 3674 or Lwazi.Ndlovu@wits.ac.za.
The seminar is free.
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July 21st, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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SynNovation WITS! Innovation Workshop

Learn-by-doing practical skills that will enable you to enhance creative problem solving and innovation both in individuals and in teams. This two-day workshop equips you with the very powerful SynNovation innovation, thinking and teamwork process.
The workshop will be held in Johannesburg and in Cape Town.
Johannesburg:
Date 1: 9-10 September 2010
Date 2: 7-8 October 2010
Date 3: 25-26 [...]

July 16th, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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SA Innovation Landscape Mini Research Survey 2010 – CLICK TO OPEN

RIIS is doing a mini-research study on the SA innovation landscape to complement the initial survey conducted during the Innovation Festival in Cape Town. The intention is to write an article on the topic. We believe that in order to impact on the local innovation landscape these types of questions need to be asked. Please [...]

July 15th, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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VOTE FOR GLOBAL MILLENNIUM PRIZE: Idea Submission Confirmation (#D345)

Please register and vote for GMP. The number is D345. The South African leg of the project was rolled out in 2009 and it was well received. The project presents an excellent opportunity for futures thinking starting at school. Please forward to your networks as well.
https://na5.brightidea.com/ct/ct_a_view_idea.bix?i=05E7400E
The HP EdTech Innovators Award rewards best practices from education [...]

July 14th, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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NineSigma and The Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability Partner to Advance Open Innovation across Southern Africa

PRETORIA, Open Innovation Office, The Innovation Hub – July 13, 2010 – NineSigma, the leading provider of open innovation solutions, announced today they are partnering with The Research Institute for Innovation and Sustainability (RIIS) to deliver open innovation services to companies and government entities throughout the Southern African Development Community . NineSigma and RIIS have [...]

July 13th, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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Innovation and the 5 “W” Questions – What, Why, When, Where, and Who by Jac Spies (BMGI South Africa)

ABSTRACT
The writer reflects on the five fundamental contextualising questions of what? why? when? where?, and who? regarding the flavoured word “Innovation”; and also addresses typical milestones in “walking the walk” from the desire to the delivery.

THE FIVE FUNDAMENTAL “W” QUESTIONS
In solving a felony case the Investigator first need to be clear on the What, Where, [...]

July 12th, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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South Africa Rolls Out the Ubuntu in Abundance – Shari Cohen

The Huffington Post (USA)
Shari Cohen
International development worker in the public health sector
Posted: June 15, 2010 11:35 AM
South Africa Rolls Out the Ubuntu in Abundance
I went on a rant the other day regarding the cost of the 2010 World Cup versus all the critical needs South Africa is facing and whether or not the most vulnerable [...]

July 8th, 2010 | Saine | 1 comment | Continued
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ICT Africa Summit 2010, 10-12 August 2010

Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, South Africa
The ICT sector of the African region has experienced major changes throughout the last decade. The ongoing fast development is to a large extent due to a general political determination to reduce the digital divide and effectively fight against under-development and poverty. It is fuelled by drastic [...]

July 8th, 2010 | Saine | 1 comment | Continued
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10 Types of Innovation by Doblin

Most organisations think innovation applies only to the development of new products when it actual fact innovation can be implemented throughout the whole business process. Doblin developed 10 Types of Innovation Framework that can help organisations to identify new opportunities in finance, process offering and delivery. Organisations that are able to simultaneously innovate across multiple [...]

July 8th, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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Innovation Summit – 2010

The eagerly anticipated Third Innovation Summit takes place at the Innovation Hub from the 26th to the 27th August 2010. The Summit will take delegates on a journey which explores the essence of innovation in action.
Stories about Innovation
The journey begins in Africa and a deep, rich, African setting provides the back drop for an [...]

June 25th, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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Stories from the Future: Mobile Devices in Africa 2049

The blog was compiled by Dr Audrey Verhaeghe from RIIS
The South African and Finland knowledge partnership on ICT (SAFIPA) mobilized 49 individuals representing industry, academia and government to create scenarios/ stories from the future about mobile devices in Africa. In the next few weeks these stories will be shared on the Saine network. The purpose [...]

June 22nd, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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The Development of a Sustainability Index for a Knowledge Driven Organisation

Businesses and the socio-economic environment in which they operate are unquestionably interconnected. Should the businesses fail to be sustainable, so too would the socio-economic environments become unsustainable. By Audrey Verhaeghe, RIIS
Driven by the information economy, the different worlds of human functions on the one hand such as running a business and associated technologies such as [...]

June 18th, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued
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Global Millennium Prize Competition – SA 2010

The South Africa Node of the Millennium Project was officially established in 2004 through a formal Memorandum of Understanding with the global Millennium Project. The Node was only the 2nd to be established in Africa, and has been active since 2006.
It is the mission of the SA Node to:

Spread the culture of futures thinking in [...]

June 17th, 2010 | Saine | 0 comments | Continued