Ambani Learn

Email: info@ambaniafrica.com
Phone: 0727848777
Website: https://www.ambaniafrica.com/
Social Media: Facebook, Instagram
 
Ambani Africa aims to amalgamate innovation and education with the language-learning platform: “Ambani Learn”. Created in an effort to repair the linguistic barriers in South Africa, the platform was borne out of a clear need for diverse-languaging in education that can cater to the vast majority of students in the country. It is targeted at learners from age 6 and employs a learner-centric and Afrocentric approach through incorporating contemporary technology in the platform while prioritizing African language learning. The program includes 40 animated stories for the Grade 1 curriculum, formative and summative assessments in the form of 240 games that are accompanied by Augmented Reality (AR) technology, and a monitoring system for teachers and parents to track learner progress. These elements are used to ensure that learning is inclusive, accessible, and enjoyable for students. To start off, the languages on the program are English, isiZulu, and isiXhosa, however, other languages from the African continent will soon be included.

 

B Sharp (B#)

Email: nickydup@fieldband.org.za
Phone: 011 2349040
Website: https://www.fieldband.org.za
Social Media: Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube
 
The Field Band Foundation has devised the “B Sharp (B#) Digital Innovation project”. This project seeks to use the digital landscape to increase the exposure of field bands and cement a sense of sustainability in the careers of field band musicians. This will be achieved through a 3 pronged plan that; (1) employs a digital program in an effort to overcome the strictures imposed by COVID-19, (2) exposes the musicians to various opportunities within the CCI through #4IR and #Futureofwork, and (3) providing artists with more opportunities, training, skills and relevant knowledge. B# looks to using TikTok to widen their audiences while propelling 10 bands that consist of 250 musicians from the Northern Cape, Western Cape, and Gauteng. Additionally, this project wants to provide Field Band musicians and teachers with the necessary tools that make them employable and relevant in the CCI. Moreover, they aim to provide ArtsPrenures (a term they coined for video and film practitioners) with enough implementable knowledge through on-the-job training.

 

Brave Spaces

Email: beth@sacii.co.za
Phone: 0729614145 / (012) 806 4126
Website: https://sa-creative-industries-incubator.co.za/
Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
 

“Brave Spaces - a collaborative exploration of resilience” is a project by the South African Creative Industries Incubator, that includes 5 female filmmakers, 5 female visual artists, and 5 female musicians. Valuing female creative exploration, entrepreneurship, and empowerment. With their initiative being set against the contextual backdrop of gender-based violence in South Africa alongside the financial problems that arose from COVID-19, Brave Spaces wishes to make a platform that is a showcase of resilience and creative innovation - circumstances notwithstanding. The primary ethos of this program is rooted in reinforcing a sense of agency in female creatives in the CCI. Their planned activities consist of a call for participants, 3 creative workshops for conceptual development, 4 support intervention workshops to sharpen participant skills, and entrepreneurship training. To refine their products, there is also a period of rehearsals and editing. The program will culminate in a showcase of what the participants have produced.

Ukuphilisa

Email: rozanne@lefikalaphodiso.co.za
Phone: 0650942152
Website: https://lefikalaphodiso.co.za/
Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
 

The psychoanalytically-informed Community Art Counselling and Training Institute, Lefika La Phodiso (translating to the “rock of holding), seeks to expand their existing program into a digital platform: “Ukuphilisa - taking community art counseling online”. Meaning “healing” in isiZulu, this is a program that centers access to mental health using art and creativity as their primary vehicle. The platform utilizes video lectures, artistic activities, written recourses, and self-reflection activities as art counseling materials. Ukuphilisa will be launched with a series of marketing campaigns and accompanied by a final report.

The Credipple Professional Tool

Email: kgolo.lekoma@credipple.com
Phone: 074 195 1890
Website: https://credipple.com/
Social Media: Facebook, Twitter, Instagram
 

With the sole mission of connecting professionals to vast networks of employment opportunities, Credipple has developed “The Credipple Professional Tool”. It allows professionals in the digital and creative sphere to manage their portfolios and monitor their career progress. Additionally, it gives them access to work opportunities in the Credipple Marketplace, remote working opportunities, and allows them to represent their work as credible. Two key aspects of this platform are how it focuses specifically on the career advancement of women and young people, and the data collection system which gears the platform towards providing users with valuable career development needs.

Izwe Lethu

Email: robertsobukwetrust@gmail.com
Phone: 07498911007
Website: http://robertsobukwetrust.org.za/robert-sobukwe
Social Media: Facebook
 
“Izwe Lethu / The land is ours - using craft-tech to address local environmental issues” is a project from the Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe Trust. The project is based in The Sobukwe Museum and it functions as a space where youths are enabled to discover, create, and innovate. The project aims to create an interactive installation in the museum’s Craft-Tech Club (CTC) Lab and library. The project is a collaboration between local organizations, schools, and additional external service providers who will work to create an educational exhibition about the climate crisis. Climate change, recycling, littering, and other essential topics regarding the climate crisis will be covered. Some of the primary objectives and plans of the project are; an initial developmental stage of creative conceptualizing and collaboration, research and design, collaboration with local young designers and school children in the design and 3D design processes, and creating a sense of sustainability for the museum with a flagship project like Izwe Lethu. This project will not only create opportunities for local creatives and designers but also incorporate involvement from the community - old and young.