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The Cape Town-based Bandwidth Barn has been in operation since 2000 and is today regarded as one of the leading ICT business incubators in the world. The Bandwidth Barn is a fully-owned subsidiary of the Cape IT Initiative (CITI), a Section 21 company, and the development and promotions agency for the ICT sector in the Western Cape.
Focusing on the ICT Sector in the Province, the BWB encourages innovation and provide ongoing training and support needed to help ICT SMMEs to overcome the entry barriers to employment, start-up, survival and growing their businesses and thus accelerate their development. |
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Thursday, 28 January 2010 04:47 |
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Bandwidth Barn in the News
Boost for Township Entrepreneurs
28 January 2010, Cape Business News - Budding entrepreneurs in Cape Town now have access to the best international training content, thanks to the accreditation of business incubator Bandwidth Barn as a Cisco Entrepreneur Institute training centre. Part of the mandate is to create an additional ten local institutes within an 18 month period.
According to Chris Vermeulen, GM at the Bandwidth Barn, the focus will be to create these local institutes in areas where there is huge potential for entrepreneurism, and a great need for employment. “We have seen how new businesses have flourished with the support of the Bandwidth Barn, and we feel compelled to extend this to areas that need entrepreneurs, both from a services and employment point of view.”
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Thursday, 04 February 2010 17:44 |
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Analysis
Silicon Savvy
3 February 2010, growthbusness.co.uk - It is easy to forget some of the fantastic successes and innovations that entrepreneurs have created over the past decade, writes Simon Cook, CEO of venture capital firm DFJ Esprit.
As a venture capitalist, it’s my job to help spot these entrepreneurs and provide them with capital and support to build world-class businesses. It has been hugely rewarding for me to look back over the last decade, beyond the recent property crash and recession, to some of the huge successes that have changed our lives and made some entrepreneurs and their backers very wealthy. This includes plenty of entrepreneurs in the UK, which leads the world in a surprising number of fields.
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Thursday, 04 February 2010 17:22 |
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In the news
Tech centres boost township skills
By Alex Kayle, Senior portals journalist
3 February 2010, ITWeb - Silulo Ulutho Technologies, a company providing computer literacy training to previously disadvantaged communities, is rolling out three training centres in Khayelitsha in the next few weeks.
Silulo Ulutho founder, Luvuyo Rani says: “There's been a huge interest in the training programmes, and we have over 600 students coming to use the technology every day. We currently have 10 training centres in the Western Cape and we want to expand further.”
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