Cape Town Activa News

Accelerate Cape Town visits Activa

February 22, 2012

Cape Town Activa is meeting our stakeholders and one of the key support organisations, Accelerate Cape Town, came to visit us at the Cape Town Activa offices today. The Activa team is proud to be associated with an organisation of this caliber. Accelerate Cape Town is a business think tank and a catalyst in bringing together stakeholders in the Cape Town region to develop and implement a long-term vision for sustainable, inclusive economic growth. The organisation was started by a group of business leaders brought together by a common concern over the pace and direction of change in the Cape. They agreed that a common long-term vision and future strategy were needed for the region, and that “big business” should play a leading role in developing and implementing them. Accelerate Cape Town works on mobilising the combined expertise, influence and enthusiasm of its members to deliver long term socio-economic growth for the Cape region. The key aims of Accelerate Cape Town are to:

Accelerate economic growth in the city and the region
Promote the city and region as a prime locality for investment
Effectively represent the views of big business
Establish a vibrant network of leaders in business, government, education and other stakeholders
Set up and maintain constructive partnerships.

Posted by Bruce Wade.

ACTIVA meet with key stakeholders

February 8, 2012

In the buildup of the official launch of Cape Town Activa, the project team met with key stakeholders early today, presenting yet another exciting project and discussing the brand impression. A formal meeting has been scheduled for next week Thursday with Neil Botha who will elaborate on the brand expression and the new version of the Activa logo.

Today was all about the “How”. How will the website look? How will the website work? And how will Activa capture the information of all the ...

Posted by Bruce Wade.

Find a solution for Cape Town thru Living Labs

February 7, 2012

Cape Town Activa appointed some of Africa and South Africa’s top ICT specialist to evaluate the showcases of one of the world’s most famous innovation competitions: The Living Labs Global Awards Competition. Cape Town Activa is the project manager on behalf of the city of Cape Town.

The judges got together on February 2^nd at the Business Place eKapa and will meet again in mid-February to evaluate the top 3 entries. The City of Cape Town is one of 21 global cities partnering with various ...

Posted by Bruce Wade.

Digital4Good Appointed as CTA Development Agency

February 7, 2012

Choosing a web agency for the development of the Cape Town Activa web portal has not been an easy task. With so many excellent teams based in Cape Town, we have had to become very focused on the task at hand.

The original spec went out to 12 agencies and we received 8 proposals. These we whittled down to our top 4 based on technical assessment and ability. These 4 then presented to a panel of representatives from our key stakeholders. We were then down to a top 2. The final choice was the h...

Posted by Bruce Wade.

Activa presents at at Sub Council 19 meeting

February 3, 2012

The Cape Town Activa team was asked to present an update at the Sub council 19 meeting in Fish Hoek this week. Together with Soil for Life and Learn to Earn we were able to present to the Councillors and contribute to what could be done in this sub council to promote a sustainable ecosystem of job creation and human capital development.

Soil for Life is a non-profit organisation that educates and encourages people in low income residential suburbs to plant an grow their own food gardens. Thr...

Posted by Bruce Wade.

Cape Town teens lead the future

January 31, 2012

SA Teen Entrepreneur runs regular academy sessions with school going teens as they discover their own potential as future entrepreneurs in our city. During this 5 days camp each teen is pushed out of their comfort zone as they have to work with others and develop new business ideas that expand and then consolidate into a full business plan and presentation by the Friday.
Teams then present to a panel who assess and judge the different ideas. Watch this video made during the Spring academy las...
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Posted by Bruce Wade.

Cape Town Activa's new intermediate website

January 27, 2012

The intermediate website for Cape Town Activa has been created to bridge the gap between our banner site and our highly expected web portal. The contract for the web portal development will be awarded by the end of January and is expected to go live in beta mode towards the end of March.

It is the goal of Cape Town Activa to enable the many small business owners and entrepreneurs in Cape Town with links, news and online tools to assist in the development of their businesses. Our second focal...

Posted by Bruce Wade.