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Goosen E

Western Cape Sustainable Database | Western Cape Department of Environmental Affairs an... - 3 views

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  • CCT Integrated Public Transport Network (IPTN) July 2014. Cape Town is expected to grow by 1.5 million residents by 2032. The IPTN aims to install a citywide transportation network by 2032, where various methods of public transportation will be joined together to form a seamless system.
  • 80% of Capetonians access to public transportation no more than 500 meters from their residence
  • A new major bus hub in Philippi Routes
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  • 10 new MyCiTi trunk routes
  • all methods of transportation into a single fare
  • Two new rail lines
  • Cape Town is expected to grow by 1.5 million residents by 2032
  • IPTN aims to install a citywide transportation network by 2032, where various methods of public transportation will be joined together to form a seamless system.
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      1. What is the current situation regarding traffic and transport in the Western Cape?
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      2. What is the situation specifically in the Peninsula / Cape Town?
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      3. Why is Cape Town regarded as the most congested city in SA?
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      4. What is the solution?
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      5. What plans does the City of Cape Town have in place to solve the situation?
Goosen E

Cape Town unveils 2032 transport plan | Future Cape Town - 1 views

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  • One of the City of Cape Town’s core objectives is to build an inclusive city where the legacy of our past is undone through linking people with opportunities and by creating an economically enabling environment for investment and job creation.  -Patricia de Lille, Cape Town’s Executive Mayor
  • June 30, 2015
  • Posted by Janetta Deppa
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  • install a citywide transportation network by 2032
  • Integrated Public Transport Network (IPTN), the city aims to offer “over 80% of Capetonians access to public transportation no more than 500 meters from their residence”. 
  • One ticket One Timetable” system where customers are not forced to buy multiple fares if they switch methods during the process of their journey.
  • Hub: A new major bus hub in Philippi, larger than the one at the Civic Centre
  • Routes: Introduction of 10 new MyCiTi trunk routes, with three additional routes to operate in mixed traffic lanes
  • Single far: The creation of a unified transportation network that bridges all methods of transportation into a single fare and schedule
  • Rail links: Two new l rail lines
  • Cape Town is expected to grow by 1.5 million residents by 2032.
  • a much more comprehensive and inclusive public transportation system for the majority of Capetonians
  • need for a decrease in congestion, particularly during peak periods when residents rely on cars and shared minivans to get to and from work.
  • New routes include: Gordon’s Bay – Strand – Khayelitsha—Mitchell’s Plain – Strandfontien – Steenberg—Retreat Wynberg – Landsdowne— Khayelitsha Claremont – Landsdowne – Mitchell’s Plain Mitchell’s Plain—Symphony Way—Bellville – Durbanville Westlake – Retreat – Hanover Park – Epping – Parow – Bellville Strandfontien – Pelikan Park – Athlone – Pinelands – Maitland – CBD Eersterivier – Blue Downs – Delft—Parow – Monte Vista – Bothasig – Parklands – Big Bay Khayelitsha – Klipfontein – Epping – Maitland – Century City Wallacedene – Durbanville – Bellville – Parow – Century City
  • new MyCiTi routes and schedules
  • decrease the need to rely on private vehicles
  • as well as public informal methods of transportation
  • the city has committed to training approximately 100 minibus taxi drivers to become MyCiTi  operators so that they do not lose their jobs as a result of the expanding public system.
  • pay for Adult Basic Education Training for many of the drivers who do not qualify for training.
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      6. How long will it take to implement the plan?
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      7. What will the cost be?
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      8. Who will mostly benefit from this plan?
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      9. How is the plan making provision for current taxi drivers not to lose their jobs?
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      10 What is the projected number of people who will be using the transport?
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      11. How many buses and trains will be ready for use in 2032?
  • passengers can expect a bus every 90 seconds during the morning peak-hour period
  • 88 trunk buses have
  • between Khayelitsha and Wynberg
  • number of buses
  • 67 trunk buses
  • between Mitchells Plain and Claremont
  • a bus every 90 seconds
  • 140 buses
  • between Wallacedene, Durbanville, Bellville, Parow and Century City
  • expect a bus every 60 seconds
  • Another purpose of the operations plan is to indicate the projected passenger demand on each of the trunk routes by 2032
  • on the T01 trunk route from Dunoon to the Civic Centre station
  • 421 commuters will board the MyCiTi buses at the Dunoon station
  • maximum of 3 000 on-board passengers per hour
  • expect a bus approximately every 2,5 minutes
Goosen E

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

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  • 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

New Tech network on Pinterst - 2 views

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The Future of Education: BYOD in the Classroom | WIRED - 2 views

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  • students bring and use their choice of technologically assistive devices in the classroom
  • No parent I know would argue for unrestricted, unmonitored online access for kids of any age
  • And these concerns are valid
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  • Distractions of games and videos Unmonitored social networking leading to bullying or predation Consumption (and creation) of inappropriate content Social status and stigma of devices
  • Personal computing changed the nature of human life forever
  • The impact of these devices on the lives of adults and children of today is amazing but it is only the beginning
  • a wave of innovation in digital assistive devices
  • devices like Google Glass
  • people are never without their smartphone and rarely out of range of a network connection.
  • human condition is radically improved by the immediacy of information and social interconnectedness that these devices enable
  • smartphone has become a seamless compliment to my human brain. With my brain and my smartphone on, I am more powerful
  • addictive
  • We are all more powerful beings armed with our devices
  • Whose responsibility is it to teach responsible use?
  • important to teach children how to use their other technology “brains” as it is to teach them to use their physical brains
  • So how are teachers and administrators to cope with the risks of unfettered online access with the responsibility to teach students how to leverage this irreplaceable technology?
  • Seek tools to manage content
  • Put policy and technology in place
  • Surround the access points with security
  • Leverage the speed of these new technologies to discover and participate in experiments with pioneering institutions in the digital world.
  • how are parents to cope with the risks of unfettered online access at school
  • supporting your local school in their efforts with BYOD and technology initiatives
  • Associating technology with learning in the minds of our children
  • These are not JUST tools for playing games.
  • both physical books and ebooks
  • read to your children
  • sources of interaction like ebooks
  • devices can be used for knowledge consumption and knowledge contribution
  • Show them how you manage your work life and home life with the help of your own devices
  • etiquette for email and SMS in the same way that you discuss the polite ways to interact personally
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Anti-tolling group praises Sanral on new fuel funding strategy | Fin24 - 2 views

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    Theron said tolling schemes for long distance economic corridors make sense, but not when these are applied to daily commuter routes such as the Gauteng Freeway network.
Goosen E

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

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

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  • 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

SA schools falling off the e-learning deep end | Fin24 - 2 views

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  • 2016-06-09
  • Few schools in South Africa have the ability to roll out effective e-learning programmes because of a lack of understanding of these platforms, says an industry insider
  • many South Africans schools, and the authorities that govern them, are misinformed as to what e-learning actually is,” Ian Light, chief executive of Eiffel Corp, told Fin24.
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  • Eiffel Corp is an e-learning specialist and Light said that the lack of local understanding of the process makes it difficult to define the exact number of schools that have effective programmes in place.
  • some of the biggest barriers to schools having a successful e-learning ecosystem is the lack of a well-planned teaching and learning strategy that incorporates technology, a lack of funding to invest in online platforms to administer and deliver e-learning content as well as the complementary subsidising of network data and connectivity infrastructure at places of learning,” said Light.
  • In Gauteng, Education MEC Panyaza Lesufi has spear-headed the provincial e-learning programme in which the paperless education system is expected to cost around R17bn.However, the programme has had challenges with a number of devices stolen.
  • More than 100 smart boards have been stolen in our schools since the installation in July 2015 of the ICT programme in the Grade 12 classrooms in 377 schools
  • But a critical component is the training of teachers to manage the delivery of the curriculum through technology tools.
  • it should be clear that the training (perhaps we should call it up-skilling) of teachers is a massive task
  • expensive and a labour intensive
  • But unless it is done in tandem with the roll-out of technology devices in schools, there will be minimal return on the technology investment," Kobus van Wyk recently told Fin24.
  • Van Wyk is the chief executive of the Associated Distributors of Educational Supplies in Southern Africa and managed the Khanya Project for a decade.
  • “South Africa needs strong, committed national leadership and complementary government policy to foster innovation and direct efforts to encourage teacher skills growth in this area,” said Light.
  • Poll that revealed more than half of school children said they knew more than their teachers about the use of tablets and computers for learning.
  • for e-learning to be effective and assist with bridging the divide for all learners, it needs effective planning that integrates with sound, measurable academic practices, cheap and reliable data connectivity as well as committed, long term funding from government,” said Light.
Goosen E

Bring your own device - Wikipedia - 0 views

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  • 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

BYOD Needs to be BYOT - Classroom of the Future - 2 views

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  • This approach to technology in the classroom is seen as a great alternative to school-bought devices being issued the same way textbooks are issued
  • The benefits of BYOD go far beyond cost reduction. It provides students and teachers with a great degree of choice in what devices they use.
  • BYOD should actually be called BYOT (Bring Your Own Technology
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  • Dr. Emil Ahangarzadeh, Director of California’s Technical Statewide Education Technology Services
  • It’s about setting up a framework, rules, and a common purpose.
  • the need to abide by the law
  • is about finding the appropriate balance between allowing teachers and students enough choice over what technology they may use and the necessary level of control the administrators need apply
  • “According to analysts Bill Rust and Jan-Martin Lowendahl of Gartner, the best way for education technology leaders to allay the risk of pandemonium within a BYOT program is to offer their stakeholders a sustainable and viable level of choice.”
  • more than just having everyone connected to the internet at school. It’s about incorporating technology into the curriculum and equipping our students with the technological skills needed to succeed in the future
  • A major issue for most schools is bandwidth.
  • Many schools have limited internet and wi-fi capabilities.
  • Adding scores of devices to an already burdened system may take some networks over the edge.
  • This is an important variable for schools to consider before they start a BYOT program
  • what the goal of their BYOT will be.
  • Will the BYOT program focus on supporting teacher and administrator need? Will it focus on the needs of students? Or will be all inclusive.
  • no “one size fits all” solution
  • Each school will have to take several factors into consideration before it implements a BYOT program.
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