Cupboard has welcomed the launch of the Synthetic Intelligence (AI) Institute of South Africa on the Johannesburg Enterprise College on Wednesday.
The Synthetic Intelligence (AI) Institute is a collaboration between the DCDT, Tshwane College of Expertise and the College of Johannesburg.
Cupboard stated that the first-of-its-kind institute ushers a brand new period in South Africa’s digital transformation efforts.
“It’s going to stimulate financial development, deal with unemployment and create a optimistic social affect. The AI Institute will broaden the instructing of robotics and coding at the moment being supplied in public faculties,” Cupboard stated.
Cupboard stated that the institute is designed to make sure that authorities academia and trade work collectively in a novel partnership to use their collective information, experience and expertise to implement coordinated options to a few of South Africa and Africa’s most important and long-standing challenges, and to take the continent ahead.
Authorities’s give attention to digital abilities contains creating platforms to help and promote the flexibility of youth, and small and medium enterprises, specifically start-ups, to develop digital content material.
South Africa Inexperienced Hydrogen Summit (SAGHS)
Cupboard has additionally welcomed the profitable conclusion of the nation’s inaugural South Africa Inexperienced Hydrogen Summit (SAGHS) 2022 held in Cape City this week.
The SAGHS 2022 showcased the nation’s choices as a world-class inexperienced hydrogen manufacturing hub.
“In creating the surroundings for the inexperienced hydrogen sector to flourish, authorities has developed a Hydrogen SA Technique that faucets into our nation’s endowment of renewable vitality and platinum, a catalyst within the hydrogen electrolysis course of, to place South Africa as a worldwide chief on this new market.
“The inexperienced hydrogen economic system is a part of our work underneath the ERRP to discover new sources of financial development which have the potential to revolutionise our economic system and create new jobs,” cupboard stated.
New Thuthuzela Care Centre in Limpopo
Cupboard has additionally welcomed the opening of the Thuthuzela Care Centre within the Dilokong Hospital at Dilokong Village in Driekop, Limpopo.
The one-stop facility, which was opened final week Tuesday, presents companies in help of victims of gender-based violence and femicide (GBVF) and sexual crimes.
The centre is the 62nd to be opened throughout the nation and fulfils the dedication authorities made on the 2018 Presidential Summit Towards GBVF to construct extra of such centres.
Nationwide Digital and Future Abilities Convention
Cupboard has additional welcomed the outcomes of the Nationwide Digital and Future Abilities Convention held in Umhlanga, KwaZulu-Natal from 22 to 23 November 2022, to strengthen the nation’s advances within the space of digital and future abilities in South Africa.
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The convention was hosted by the Division of Communications and Digital Applied sciences (DCDT) in partnership with the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ).
It aimed to, amongst others, strengthen partnerships within the space of digital and future abilities in South Africa, create and stimulate curiosity in digital and future abilities, and discover digital abilities coaching alternatives obtainable for youth offered by the Fourth Industrial Revolution.
“The convention cast partnerships between authorities, enterprise, civil society, worldwide improvement organisations and youth organisations to take our nation ahead into the digital period,” Cupboard stated on Thursday.
