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Goosen E

Potholes: How They Effect Our Roads - RoadCover - 2 views

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PAT effect roads CAT

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  • Motorists are being urged to contact the department of transport and claim the damages to their vehicles caused by the roads and potholes in South Africa
  • The national government is aware of the dangerous road conditions across the country which has resulted in them announcing a R22billion budget over the next three years on a countrywide pothole repair program.
  • This program is expected to create over 70 000 jobs in its first year. It aims to improve the road conditions of any road (highways, toll-roads and suburban roads) and repair any potholes which have been causing damage to motorist’s vehicles. Depending on how much the roads get used, the rainfall and the weather conditions can all cause the potholes to get larger and have an impact on the condition of the roads.
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  • The bad roads are also having a major impact on our countries economy
  • The Automobile Association (AA) said that if there was proper maintenance of our roads, then there could be an immediate decrease in about 5% of road deaths, costing the economy about R40billion. South Africa’s has more than 700000 accidents occurring annually
Goosen E

Vision Of ArriveAlive.co.za | Arrive Alive South Africa - 1 views

www.arrivealive.co.za/Vision-Of-Arrive-Alive

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shared by Goosen E on 02 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • Vision Of ArriveAlive.co.za
  • "To develop an effective road safety information portal that will enhance awareness of road safety and save lives"
  • enhance and provide more information on these and other international efforts to improve road safety.
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  • assist the following target groups: The Department of Transport Officials at the Arrive Alive Campaign Road users Tourists Students and scholars doing research projects on road safety. Private business in a variety of industries including motoring, trauma and healthcare, legal and insurance companies Victims of road accidents and their families
  • will also benefit visitors from other countries worldwide  - and especially other road safety initiatives and campaigns in Africa!
  • knowledge can only be shared through the unselfish contributions from people with expertise in a wide variety of fields
Marlene Groenewald

http://www.pothole.info/2016/03/can-data-science-fix-potholes/ - 0 views

Can Data Science Fix Potholes?

potholes PAT

started by Marlene Groenewald on 20 Feb 17 no follow-up yet
Marlene Groenewald

http://www.wheels24.co.za/News/Bring-it-to-SA-Car-that-spots-potholes-20150610 - 0 views

Bring it to SA! Car that spots potholes! * 'Pothole Alert' could save thousands * Identify location, severity of potholes * Researchers share data with other cars

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started by Marlene Groenewald on 20 Feb 17 no follow-up yet
Goosen E

Media Alert: Free high-speed internet at all Western Cape schools by end-2016 | Western... - 1 views

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media alert free internet western schools cape government technology CAT PAT digital resources

shared by Goosen E on 25 Jan 17 - No Cached
  • 8 September 2015
  • Premier Helen Zille formally launched the Western Cape’s eLearning “Game-Changer” at the province’s Legislature building in Cape Town today (8 September 2015).
  • will provide free high-speed internet access to all Western Cape schools by the end of 2016, to support teaching and learning.
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  • for improving access to quality education in all communities.
  • vision is to use eLearning to improve literacy and numeracy, and to ensure that our learners are better prepared for the 21st century.
  • two key parts.
  • free high-speed broadband access.
  • first
  • second
  • give learners and teachers instant access to the very best digital materials for teaching and learning.
  • ePortal
  • Western Cape Government (WCG) is investing R3.8 billion over the next 10 years to bring high-speed broadband to all residents of the Western Cape.
  • And schools are our first priority. Over the next decade, R2 billion of the total investment will be on connectivity at schools.
  • broadband system will provide a Wide Area Network (WAN).
  • total of 581km of fibre optic cable will have been laid by the end of 2016,
  • alongside the existing 1251km Neotel cable network
  • backbone
  • connects all schools and other sites across the province.
  • Western Cape Education Department is also installing Local Area Networks (LANs) in schools, district offices and head offices to connect classrooms, teachers and learners to the broader admin system.
  • Work started in September last year, and the first schools were connected to the WAN in April this year
  • 31 August 2015, service providers have completed connectivity at 275 schools
  • end of 2016, all schools in the province will have free, high-speed internet access.
  • “smart classrooms”
  • including interactive whiteboards, laptops, projectors and other devices to support teaching and learning.
  • addition
  • will be able to use their own devices,
  • 3 350 smart classrooms were established in schools in 2014/15. The Western Cape Education Department (WCED) also refreshed 249 computer laboratories in the same year.
  • The WCED has provided 26 000 ICT training opportunities to date, to support teaching and learning.
  • the new eLearning Portal has gone live, and is accessible at www.wcedeportal.co.za.
  • Our new broadband system and the digital revolution are making it much easier to respond to the individual needs of learners, teachers, parents, school managers and governors.
  • individuals can easily access the ePortal from any location
  • content available on the ePortal will be entirely demand-driven, with content suppliers competing to provide the best digital resources.
Goosen E

The challenge of bridging the digital divide - 0 views

2016.ifla.org/of-bridging-the-digital-divide

digital divide PAT CAT

shared by Goosen E on 06 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • 13–19 August 2016,
  • 9 September 2016, 13:05
Goosen E

The Challenges of Closing the Digital Divide - The New York Times - 0 views

www.nytimes.com/...losing-the-digital-divide.html

PAT CAT digital divide

shared by Goosen E on 06 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • Q: What do we know about the people who aren’t able to obtain access to or afford broadband?
  • South Carolina
  • challenges of closing the digital divide.
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  • millions of people are caught in the divide
  • many are low-income and in rural areas
Goosen E

Project Isizwe | Company Profile | Business Review Africa - 0 views

www.africanbusinessreview.co.za/...South-Africa-through-free-WiFi

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shared by Goosen E on 07 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • Super Admin - Aug 23, 2016
  • Deloitte research has shown that productivity in developing countries could be enhanced by as much as 25 percent with the expansion of WiFi access.
  • 75 percent of citizens can’t easily or affordably get online
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  • Project Isizwe, a not-for-profit organisation based in the city of Tshwane, is currently working with government bodies across South Africa to bring free public WiFi to the country. 
  • “We all understand the value of Internet connectivity,” Zahir Khan, the CEO of Project Isizwe, explains, “especially in terms of educational benefits, improved healthcare services, better opportunities for economic development — and, of course, social cohesion. From that perspective it’s critical to connect the country sooner rather than later.”
  • In 2013, a bid to connect every citizen was launched across the city of Tshwane. To date, it is Project Isizwe’s largest deployment effort, with 850 Free Internet Zones (FIZs) installed in the local area and almost two million unique users accessing the web since November of 2013. By 2018, Tshwane will have WiFi within walking distance of every citizen. 
  • installation of 213 Internet access points outside of schools in Tshwane.
  • This ensures that every learner, educator and community member in and around the schools is connected”.
  • Rural environments in South Africa also stand to benefit from the efforts of Project Isizwe,
  • these locations is admittedly more of a challenge
  • remote regions, state revenue is limited, thus it is more difficult to get these communities online.
  • “Funding has been the biggest barrier for expansion across the entire country,” Khan says.
  • Project Isizwe’s not-for-profit status
  • the project operates exclusively under cost-recovery: it doesn’t charge users for its service and the large-scale financial benefits of WiFi access for South Africa will not be immediately evident.
  • Research by the World Bank has shown that a 10 percent increase in what is called ‘broadband penetration’, the amount of the Internet access market that has been captured by high-speed broadband, will result in a 1.3 percent increase in a country’s GDP. 
  • access to an affordable mobile device
  • was also a barrier to Internet access in South Africa
  • cost of these items has fallen
  • Project Isizwe has deployed in rural environments, places as remote as the mountain village of Tshedza in Limpopo province
  • are finding creative ways to reach out into their newly-connected world.
  • Khan cites the story of Martin Nyokolodi, a young man in Tshwane who has launched his own Internet radio station, among his favourites. Not only does Nyokolodi utilise the City’s ‘TshWi-Fi’ service to broadcast his programme, he also takes Skype calls from listeners and maintains the station’s social media presence on the network.
  • Restaurant owners in proximity to a WiFi hotspot have been setting up shelters within signal range so that customers can access the web
  • these makeshift ‘Internet cafes’ have increased restaurant profits by as much as 80 percent
  • Internet has helped to streamline the process of care and diagnosis in South Africa’s clinics and medical facilities.
  • In its National Development Plan 2030, the government of South Africa states that it wants universally available Internet across the country in 14 years’ time. 
  • “The public hotspots become a place to bridge the digital divide, where regardless of personal circumstance or background, everyone has access to the same Internet,” Khan says.  
Goosen E

Good Work Foundation | 5 Great Learning Apps for Rural South Africa - 1 views

www.goodworkfoundation.org/ng-apps-for-rural-south-africa

CAT PAT research apps education

shared by Goosen E on 07 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • 5 Great Learning Apps for Rural South Africa Back
  • Apple claims that 80,000 of its apps are catergorised as “education.”
  • in July 2014 there were over three million apps available
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  • one of the digital facilitator’s most important tasks is “app aggregation” – and that depends on age, academic level, language ability, etc.
  • Below are five apps that our digital facilitators used in 2014 at Hazyview Digital Learning Centre’s (HDLC) Open Learning Academy in rural South Africa for grade four learners.
  • The focus
  • is to “have as much fun as possible” but coming in a close second: dramatically improve English reading and comprehension, and basic mathematics numeracy
  • easiest for beginners to use, and the most useful in terms of content for our group of learners.
  • Scrabble (Electronic Arts)
  • Word Search (MichelAnge Workshop)
  • Math BINGO (Iuyen sg)
  • Sentence Builder Lite (BareBoneApps.com)
  • Open Learning Academies are built to empower rural people from a young age. The academies aim to deliver English literacy, math’s literacy, digital literacy, and life skills to school-aged learners.
Goosen E

Bring your own device - Wikipedia - 0 views

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PAT CAT research

shared by Goosen E on 02 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • Bring your own device (BYOD)—also called bring your own technology (BYOT), bring your own phone (BYOP), and bring your own Personal Computer (BYOPC)—refers to the policy of permitting employees to bring personally owned devices (laptops, tablets, and smart phones) to their workplace, and to use those devices to access privileged company information and applications.[
  • The term BYOD first entered common use in 2009, courtesy of Intel when it recognized an increasing tendency among its employees to bring their own devices (i.e., smartphones, tablets and laptop computers) to work and connect them to the corporate network
Goosen E

Step-up Arrive Alive Campaign - Inkatha Freedom Party - 0 views

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campaign freedom party CAT PAT research

shared by Goosen E on 02 Feb 17 - No Cached
  • 30 November, 2015
  • Department of Transport must increase the visibility of traffic officers on our roads and ensure that regular and random vehicle roadworthy inspections are being carried out.
  • focus on vehicles used for public conveyance
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  • IFP Spokesperson on Transport, Mr Petros Sithole, MP, said “the consistently high visibility of traffic officers on our roads will go a long way in preventing such incidents
  • passenger taxi was overloaded
  • carrying more than twenty people.
  • We urge the Department of Transport to understand that campaigns like “Arrive Alive” should not only be a festive season initiatives but rather continuing campaigns.
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