South African ICT practitioners are some of the most highly skilled entrepreneurs and professionals in the world, often creating innovative technologies that changes industries and lives by fully exploiting the possibilities that ICT has to offer. Our people are intelligent and talented with a level of competitiveness unmatched by any other nation. Having said that, the new series of ICT initiatives is a 'call to action' for our tech community to achieve more.
Our featured project is mytech, a new collaboration platform for aspiring and practicing technologists to learn through accessing and contributing to a knowledge base and participating in projects for improving personal and professional development. An initiative to help overcome the current ICT skills shortage in SA.
Intelligence, Creativity and Talent
- Interpret your goals - visualise yourself enjoying the process of the work and not just the outcomes.
- Connect with people - create friendships and not just allies as trust relationships are vital to your success.
- Track your progress - work on projects that fits your strengths and passions for greater achievements.
What the great scientists have to say...
~ Albert Einstein ~
The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination.
~ Stephen Hawking ~
Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.
Independent Critical Thinking
We often hear enterprise execs say that people are their most valuable asset and that they are taking better care of their employees, yet job satisfaction is alarmingly low and workers are still unhappy. So before we can talk about encouraging the growth of our local ICT economy, we have to make a serious effort to secure our own personal growth as the real drivers of change.
| Inventions and innovations are regular occurrence and no longer breakthroughs, which implies that the transformation process is continuous. This reinforces cultural change in which each of us must adapt in our own individual way. |
| To develop a culture that encourages and rewards freedom of independent thought and expression, we must actively contribute to change initiatives that are about the people and not technology, systems or processes. |
| This highlights the importance of integrating ideas and perspectives across traditional boundaries of viewpoint, practice, and discipline to provide a process for improving and a means for measuring higher order thinking skills. |
How would you rearrange the words: 'New door' into one word? There is only 1 answer.
This is our joint contribution to development in South Africa while being enriched with the joys of morale and team spirit, and of course some well deserved and overdue rewards in cash, goods and services. Our ICT competition will be the first of many industry challenges.
2012 ICT Industry Challenge
Accessing information is no longer a challenge; it is being able to select credible sources and use relevant information for a purpose.
Bearing that in mind, users will be instructed to do numerous internet-based activities over a period of time. Thousands of prizes will be awarded as well as certificates for various achievements.
| Join the mytech Community and get updated info on this first-of-its-kind challenge in SA... |
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What the technologists have to say...
~ Mark Shuttleworth ~
Computer is not a device anymore. It is an extension of your mind and your gateway to other people.
~ Linus Torvalds ~
People enjoy the interaction on the Internet, and the feeling of belonging to a group that does something interesting: that's how some software projects are born.
~ Tim Berners-Lee ~
We need diversity of thought in the world to face the new challenges.
~ Bill Gates ~
As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.
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