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“Through the Habitable Planet Workshops, I realised that there is a purpose out there for this young black girl from the deep rural farms of the Eastern Cape,” said Zanele Xelelo, a long-standing participant of the Applied Centre for Climate and Earth System Science’s (ACCESS) Habitable Planet Workshops. Xelelo spoke at the 10-year celebratory dinner of the Habitable Planet Workshop (HPW) series held at various locations across the country on 17 January 2018.
Proposals are hereby invited for the following two separate and independent elements within the RIS:
- Regional Innovation Networking platforms (aimed at establishing a networking platform to bring together research, development and innovation communities, technology SMMEs, industry and government.
- Feasibility study or business plan support for technology incubators, science parks or other innovation enabling mechanisms.
The successful consortia will work closely with the Technology Localisation Implementation Unit (TLIU) as implementing agency on behalf of DST for the RIS programme. Read more...
Growing up in a community with a lack of resources to stimulate learning, and being surrounded by poverty, substance abuse, and high numbers of child-headed families, is a dream killer for most youngsters. These are some of the factors that always push a group of young people into the world of crime. However, Charles Maphanga, a young researcher at the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), did not allow similar conditions in Ga-Mampuru village, Limpopo, to stop him from dreaming big.
South Africa's mines remain one of the most hazardous working environments in the country, with seismic activity and rock bursts resulting in injuries and fatalities (73 in 2016).
It is relatively easy for a child to apply for an identity document (ID) and have it issued with the identity of another child; because the South African government and most other world governments do not, in simple terms, know what a child who is linked to a particular identity looks like. This, by extension means that any child can use the identity of another child, with the scary implication that it is easy to move through national borders with a stolen child.
The CSIR has a long history of collaboration with universities.
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) presented its research findings on laser-based HIV diagnostics at the world’s largest photonics conference in California, San Franciso.
The High Performance Computing (HPC) Ecosystems Project is responsible for the distribution and deployment of decommissioned HPC hardware as mid-tier systems to research institutions within Africa.
The second edition of an atlas showing South Africa’s vulnerability to climate change has been launched in Johannesburg, to help the country’s economic and social sectors take informed decisions to avoid risks related to climate change. Developed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an entity of the Department of Science and Technology (DST), the South African Risk and Vulnerability Atlas (SARVA) disseminates spatial and non-spatial data that describes, assesses and evaluates the risks and vulnerabilities facing the country due to climate change.
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) showcases some of the latest technologies to improve safety in the mining sector.
These innovative technologies will be displayed at the Mining Indaba taking place in Cape Town from Monday, 5 to Thursday, 8 February 2018.
The Inaccessibility of some areas underground makes it difficult and dangerous for inspections after blasting. The CSIR developed a robot platform equipped with safety inspection sensors to enter mines during safety periods. Known as “Monster”, the robot aims to assess and identify risk for underground mines.