Are township enterprises using tech to develop and grow township economies?
Understanding various factors in township ecosystems is a prerequisite to unearthing strategies for using tech in favour of these economies
“Food for Thought”: Civic Tech Breakfast Event — Tech for Townships?
Join us at our next breakfast session which will focus on what’s happening in the tech for townships industry in South Africa
How Africa can implement smart cities
Creating a smart city requires the involvement of citizens, private and public sectors because technology alone cannot solve the world’s problems
“Food for Thought”: Civic Tech Breakfast Event — “Smart City?”
Join us at our next breakfast session which will focus on what “Smart City” means in a South African city context and where “Smart City” could take South Africa/world cities? We have put together an interesting and enthusiastic panel of Smart City experts so expect a diverse conversation.
“Food for Thought”: Civic Tech Breakfast Event — Putting local data together
This session will focus on innovative ways data helps solve complex public management, planning and administration issues
#datamustfall Roundtable
Recent research shows that more than half of South Africans are now using the internet. The good news is that the internet is no longer for the well off. The bad news is that for most people who are dependent on mobile networks to connect, the internet is...
Beyond Transparency: Discover the new National Treasury spending and data portal
It will help journalists spend fewer hours on end searching for the information Civic tech NPO OpenUp has built several tools that make big data sets and relevant documentation easily accessible to journalists, to help them add context and deepen their reporting....
What data do we want?
Event: 19 October 2017. Johannesburg. Please join us on the morning of Thursday 19th October for a workshop on open data demand to mark the launch of our new research: “What data do we want? Understanding demands for open data amongst civil society...
Public Seminar — 29 Aug: Cyber-security and techno-politics in SA
What is the state of South Africa’s governance of cyber-security? And what are the hidden ‘technopolitics’ of ICTs, their ability to embody and enact political goals in Ethiopia and the rest of Africa? The governance of cybersecurity — the case of South...
“First, Do No Harm” — Privacy, Data Security, and the POPI Act
Civic Tech Innovation Network Workshop: Tshimologong Precinct, 19 July 2017 Doctors have to follow a rule that before they help others, they must first make sure that they do not harm them. We believe people working in civic tech should adopt a similar...