A multistakeholder operation that consists of academia, industry, government and marginalized communities to facilitate user-driven innovation in the ICTD domain.
This not only empowers the rural communities but also integrates the innovative potential in the rural marginalized areas within the general national system of innovation.
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The CoE was established in March 1997 at Rhodes University with Telkom SA as the anchor industry funding partner. The current industrial partners include established market leaders as well as newcomers. From the outset, the Centre was registered as a THRIP (Technology & Human Resources for Industry Programme) project, with the aim of attracting matching financial support from the government department of Trade & Industry. |
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The Telkom Centre of Excellence in Information and Communication Technology for Development (ICTD) is a research unit hosted within the the Department of Computer Science at the University of Fort Hare. The research focus of the centre is on the use of computing technology for socio-economic development of marginalized and rural communities. The field-site of our research is a rural community of Dwesa in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. |
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The Finnish and South African governments are partnering to enhance the country's innovation system through the Cooperation Framework on Innovation Systems between Finland and South (COFISA). The overall objective of the COFISA Programme is to enhanced the effectiveness of the South African National System of Innovation contributing to economic growth and poverty alleviation |
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eKhaya ICT is a software development and project management startup with a rural African focus, based in Grahamstown, and founded in Jan 2007. | |
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Village Scribe Association |
Association for the Advancement of Innovative Information and Communication Technologies for Rural Development
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