About NCDev Ecosystem


A platform for all things ICT and Entrepreneurship scene in the Northern Cape. Developed by the Sol Plaatje University students who were selected as Geekulcha Student Ambassadors. The ultimate goal of the NCDev Ecosystem is to build-up to an establishment of an mLab in the Northern Cape.

The platform extends Geekulcha services to the Northern Cape for students, entrepreneurs, designers and community leaders to Connect, Learn, Share and Put Skills to real work.

Vision: The Northern Cape must become one of the strong leaders in the ICT space in South Africa and be a home of Innovation, Adequate Skills Pool and drivers of the growing Tech-Enabled world.

Mission: Establishing a highly active Developer/Maker Ecosystem in the Northern Cape for for a Smart and Inclusive Economy while realizing a socio-economical value.

Htxt Africa Article: Geekulcha Expanding Tech Student Body To Northern Cape

Platform Goals


This platform to will keep you up-to-date with activities in the Tech and Entrepreneurship in the Northern Cape province. Shall take greater aim in skills development and gives an edge to outstanding individuals to showcase their skills and be exposed to the corporate world for work and collaborative opportunities.

Championing These Aspects

  • Innovation: We tell you about all the Innovations coming from Northern Cape's Innovators
  • Tech Events: Keep up with what the industry is up to. Get exposed and find opportunities
  • Live by code: Tech meet-ups, codefests, hackathons, GeeksConnect and many dev sessions will get you up the game.
  • Growth Network: We bring you a variety of opportunities for networking and connect with industry leaders for work and collaborative opportunities.
  • Entrepreneurship: Get the right tools to kick-start your journey into Entrepreneurship and make a massive contribution to the economy and in job creation

Fuelled by GKSS-SPU

GKSS-SPU


Geekulcha Student Society at Sol Plaatje University to drive tech activities on campus

The Top 6 Team

Tsholofelo Manamela - Chairperson Keaobaka Patrick Mosemeng Nozibusiso Maruma Boipelo Molongwane Olatomiwa (Tom) Akinlaja Katlego Tshite

The GKSS mandate at SPU:

  • Represent Geekulcha on campus
  • Create and Enable platforms for student empowerment
  • Host events/initiatives
  • Connect students closer to opportunities
  • Drive digital campus initiative (GKSS App)

NCDev Initiatives


NC Digital
Estabished from NCDev Ecosystem to Help run Tech activities in the Northern Cape
#OpenCampus Meetups
An opportunity for the Tech community to connect and share their thoughts
Youth VacWork Programme
Grooming them young, the VacWork takes place in July every year.
NCDev Hackathon
Annual hackathon to grow Developer/Maker momentum towards a smart and an inclusive province through Technology and Innovation.
Information Security
When Connected, Stay Protected. InfoSec skills development is part of the NCDev Ecosystem.
SkateHacks
Making skateboards smart and cool, the team integrate tech in skateboards, gather data and visualize.
Open Data Movement
Open Data programmes to enable new innovation and smart citizenship
Facebook Developers Circles: Kimberley
Social Community aimed at having offline Tech meetups and online engagements.

#NCDevTop6Ladies Ladies in ICT and Entrepreneurship

Since 2015, the NCDev Ecosystem has been driving the ICT and SME skills development in the Northern Cape province, we honor some of the outstanding ladies in the forefront of the digital narrative of the province.


Millicent Mokoena

Millicent Mokoena


She is currently managing her own company, Glam Perfected, using innovative technology to provide excellent events management services to her wide range of clients.

Nomfundo Nkosi

Nomfundo Nkosi


Student - First chairperson of the Geekulcha Student Society at Sol Plaatje University. Responsible for the first tech programmes in the province.

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Gomolemo Motlhwai


Cordinator, DEDAT- Since 2015, Gomolemo has been at forefront of cooordinating tech activities in the province.


Somebody

Nyakallo Motsoari


Student, Mathematics - An aspiring astrophysicist with a great interest in code and being one of the leading scientists.

Somebody

Lynette Pieterson


Lecturer, TVET - Always ensured that her students are active on hackathons and championed the digital drive.

Joseline Maasdorp

Joseline Maasdorp


Ultimate GeekStar, VacWork Mier - A learner at the Rietfontein Combined School. One of the young up and coming industry in the province.

Digital Innovation Block

NCDev Women Summit 2018


NCDev Women Summit seeks to inspire, educate and connect girls and women to be highly active in Innovation, Entrepreneurship, Science and Technology.

Our goal is to support the community of young women currently working in Technological industry and to help pave the way for girls and young women who want to enter the industry.

The summit will champion Innovation, Technology and Entrepreneurship and enable female local female entrepreneurs with digital skills for their businesses.
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ITWeb Security Summit 2018 Ideathon Kimberley


'Challenging disruptive innovators to build the most secure systems possible. The Hackathon will also be used to explore new innovative mechanisms for the security sector.'

Geekulcha edition of the Hackathon will hosted at the Sol Plaatje University by the Department of Economic Development and Tourism(DEDaT), Geekulcha Student Society(GKSS) and the Diamond Creative Vision Hub(DCVH)

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053Hack18 in Kimberley


The 053 Hackathon (053HACK) is a local hackathon aimed at digitalizing Kimberley and turning it into a smart competitive city and in the process stimulate and develop Information Communication Technology and Tech-Entrepreneurship in the city for commercialization.

The hackathon is championed and hosted by local Tech-Entrepreneurs and it aims to attract software developers, computer programmers, data scientists, graphic designers, web developers and tech-entrepreneurs within and around the city of Kimberley

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Open Data Day kimberley


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.

Most of work on the day will be on computers as a strategy to build more digital interest and drive a Collaborative Digital Economy. At the end of the event, participants will have innovative business ideas through Open Data.

Stories of the Open Data Day will be published through different platforms of the department and Geekulcha.

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Youth ICT and Business VacWork


Empowering youth Innovators and Entrepreneurs, the Youth ICT and Business Vacation Work (VacWork) is a high schools programme aimed giving a simulated working experience, to be hosted 9 - 13 July in Prieska, Northern Cape.

The Geekulcha crew and community get to redistribute their skills/knowledge to the young ones.

The Northern Cape Department of Economic Development and Tourism seeks to expand and plug the program in rural communities of the Northern Cape. Given that the Bloodhound Supersonic Car (SSC) is coming around the Mier Municipality, the area has been identified as ideal to host the VacWork programme in 2017.

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Responsive Cities Challenge 2016


The aim of the Responsive Cities challenge is to encourage developers, designers, researchers and entrepreneurs to use available open data from various cities across South Africa to develop applications, stories and visualizations that can help residents work better with local government.

In the Northern Cape, the Open Government Partnership joined hands with DEDaT, Geekulcha and DCVH to host the provincial edition where 9 finalists made it through. Finalist workshop was hosted 19 - 20 November at Sol Plaatje University.

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Opportunities For Digital Innovation and Entrepreneurship

DEDAT and Geekulcha have collaborated to establish this platform to provide
you with various opportunities in ICT and SME development.

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NCDev Portfolio


NCDevHack 2016

Northern Cape Developer Hackathon (NCDevHack) is an annual provincial hackathon aimed at stimulating and developing more ICT/Entrepreneurship in the province. The Theme: Our Future Through Innovation

NCDevHack 2016

hackathon

VacWork Nababeep

Naba E-skills led the drive as we empower young people with digital skills.

VacWork Nababeep

stem

SpaceApps Kimberley

A day of code, Kimberlaaities joining the Global Space Apps challenge to solve solutions of life on earth and in space. The hackathon will take place like others but concurrently with the rest of the world.

SpaceApps Kimberley

hackathon

Alien Tech wins SKAHack20

SKA Hackathon took place 12-13 March at the Mayibuye Centre in Galeshewe to bring about SKA Knowledge.

Alien Tech wins SKAHack20

Hackathon

Intel Training

Intel Training at Sol Plaatje University based on the Intel RealSense

Intel Training

Training

Summer Dev Days

A 3-day coding festival to support winners of the NCDevHack, conduct an Intel training and launch the Microsoft Imagine Cup challenge.

Summer Dev Days

Training

Durban AgriHack

A team of Northern Cape Hackers took part at the Durban AgriHack talent challenge giving birth to 2 new start-ups.

Durban AgriHack

Hackathon

Kimberley Diamond Cup

The team hosted SkateHacks Maker activities at the Skateboarding World Championships - making skateboards smart and cooler.


Kimberley Diamond Cup

Outreach

Municipality App

Going solo, Henry Chen developed an interactive and informative app for municipalities to bring about better service delivery - 3rd place at NCDevHack.


Municipality App

Hackathon

Rep My Province

Going into the Northern Cape? This app guides you to all the best places based on the amount of money you have with you - 2nd place at NCDevHack.

Rep My Province

Hackathon

EventsZone Wins!

EventsZone app set to provide a great platform for events in the Northern Cape won first place at the NCDevHack - getting business support from DEDaT.

EventsZone Wins!

Hackathon

First Hackathon: NCDevHack

First hackathon in the Northern Cape province - Localization of Innovation with Global Technologies. 117 participants, 14 projects developed.

First Hackathon: NCDevHack

Hackathon

NCDev Ecosystem Events

The GKSS Team

Tsholofelo Manamela

Tsholofelo Manamela

Chairperson | SPU Campus

Project manager for the NCDev Ecosystem, Tsholofelo is an activist in getting stuff done.

Keaobaka Patrick Mosemeng

Keaobaka Patrick Mosemeng

Secretary | SPU Campus

The action guy, Patrick is a futurist who lives to see positive things thereby put action forward

Olatomiwa Akinlaja

Olatomiwa (Tom) Akinlaja

Treasure | SPU Campus

has a passion for ICT and empowering youngsters to follow their path.

Nozibusiso Maruma

Nozibusiso Maruma

Community Manager | SPU Campus

This is a young entusiastic Tech lady that loves to work with people.

Katlego Tshite

Katlego Tshite

PR Manager | SPU Campus

This our #NextGen Photographer and designer. Check out his work @katlegotshite

Boipelo Molongwane

Boipelo Molongwane

PR Manager | SPU Campus

Active member of Clothes for Life (non profit organisation ) | Fascinated by Artificial Intelligence in | Christian | NCDevHack 2017 winner ( team We R Big Data )

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Contact Information


Communications handled by Mr Creston Campher


Sol Plaatje Central Campus

Chapel Street
Kimberley

8300


Email Address: info@ncdev.co.za

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