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The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) welcomes the appointment of Ms Mmamoloko Kubayi-Ngubane as the new Minister of Science and Technology. The appointment comes after the announcement of a new Cabinet by President Cyril Ramaphosa on the 26th February 2018.
“Commercialisation of Research Technologies” is the central theme for this year’s NEPAD Southern Africa Network for Biosciences (SANBio) with a dialogue on new ways of innovating for the future in the biosciences, cultural changes in the research environment toward entrepreneurship, the role of data and technology in health and nutrition, infrastructure for innovation and future trends and funding models.
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 current focus of the project is to support HPC development in the Square Kilometre Array (SKA) partner countries across Africa through enabling computational research initiatives and developing human capital in HPC.
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Low-cost technologies to improve the quality of water and service delivery in the municipalities will be displayed at the 12th National Municipal Managers Forum taking place in Mpumalanga on 20-21 February.
The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has developed a range of technologies to enhance the performance of the municipalities and also to improve the quality of life in rural and peri-urban areas.
The impact of climate change continues to have devastating effects on nations across the globe, and South Africa has not been spared. Provinces like the Western Cape are experiencing one of its worst droughts in decades, while the Free State and Northern Cape have suffered substantial depletion of livestock as well as crop failure due to persistent drought conditions.
The Department of Science and Technology (DST) believes the launch of the second edition of the South African Risk and Vulnerability Atlas (SARVA) is timely as it has essential information on the impact of climate change in South Africa. Developed by the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), an entity of the DST; the atlas also presents findings of current research on the risk and vulnerability of key social and economic sectors to climate change.
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.
Waste management service provider, Pikitup, has commissioned the CSIR to investigate potential regulatory or economic interventions that will encourage more people in residential areas to participate in a waste-separation-at-source programme in Johannesburg. Participation by households has been low since the programme’s inception.
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...
“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.