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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.

 
Monday, 08 March 2010 09:50

International: General

Time to rethink the way we do business

Hal Austin 

FT FinancialAdviser 

Published Thursday , March 04, 2010

The spectacular changes brought about by the banking crisis and the following recession has given us an opportunity to take a long, hard look at the way we do business.

Until now, business, and in particular financial services, has been seen as a testosterone-fuelled activity from which women have been excluded.

But, the challenges from the more dynamic of the emerging markets and narrow-focusing on lifestyles business models are now changing to reflect the new reality.

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Wednesday, 03 March 2010 11:15

In the news

Cabinet to consider new growth plan by mid-year

Article by: Jade Davenport

2 March 2010, Polity.org.za - Government's economic sectors and employment cluster, which has been mandated to grow the economy and create jobs, is in the process of developing a ‘Growth Plan' for consideration during the mid-year Cabinet Lekgotla.

Speaking at a media briefing in Cape Town on Tuesday, Science and Technology Minister Naledi Pandor said that the cluster had highlighted eight areas that would feature in the growth plan, which would aim to facilitate a new growth path for the South African economy.

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Wednesday, 24 February 2010 20:55

My View

CTEC 2010 opens for registration

24 February 2010 – Just a reminder that the Cape Town Entrepreneurship Competition 2010 is now open and accepting applications. The aim of the competition is to expand entrepreneurship in Cape Town. The competition forms part of the City of Cape Town’s strategy to position Cape Town as a leading enabler of entrepreneurship on the African continent and to build a stronger entrepreneurship ecosystem. The competition is open to idea stage entrepreneurs, startup and growth companies in three categories – Biotechnology & Healthcare, Clean Technology and ICT, Telecoms & Media.

Visit the website HERE to register.

 

 


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