Calling all data scientists or aspiring data scientists! What? In October 2019, Uber will be launching Uber Movement in Cape Town, South Africa. Uber Movement is a free tool that uses Uber’s anonymized data from millions of trips to help urban planners make significant decisions about their city. The hack will build a machine learning model that predicts…
Corporates and NPOs are dramatically improving engagement with their CSI programmes thanks to Vollar’s new digital incentive currency. The biggest challenge facing corporate social investment (CSI) in South Africa often isn’t funding – it’s engagement. Budgets are planned around expected or initial engagement with a programme, only to run into unexpected participant drop-off, with the result being that funding…
It’s the third annual National Student Entrepreneurship Week (#SEW2019) designed to inspire participation in student entrepreneurial activities. Stellenbosch University in partnership with LaunchLab invites Stellenbosch University students to participate in this awareness program, to encourage increase their career options by acquainting themselves with the world and skills of entrepreneurship. Student Entrepreneurship Week was piloted in 2017 by the Department…
