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The South African Computing Olympiad (SACO) is an annual computer programming competition for secondary school students (although at least one primary school student has participated [1]) in South Africa. The South African team for the International Olympiad in Informatics is selected through it.
The Computer Society of South Africa focuses its activities, events and publications in five primary areas: ICT Policy representing industry practitioners at a local level. Education and training to elevate the level of ICT capability in South Africa. Professional development and advancement. Community development, in terms of projects, that ...
Access to computers, or to broadband access, remains rare for half of the world's population. For example, as of 2010, on average of only one in 130 people in Africa had a computer [2] while in North America and Europe one in every two people had access to the Internet. [3] 90% of students in Africa had never touched a computer. [4]
Revelo collected rankings from U.S. News and World Report to identify the top universities for computer science in Africa.
Obami – a social and educational learning platform that started in South Africa and has been adopted by more than 30,000 educators in schools across Sub-Saharan Africa. [ 12 ] Gifted Mom - a mobile health platform that started in Cameroon and betters the health conditions of women who are pregnant and newborn children in rural communities.
Because software, unlike a major civil engineering construction project, is often easy and cheap to change after it has been constructed, a piece of custom software that fails to deliver on its objectives may sometimes be modified over time in such a way that it later succeeds—and/or business processes or end-user mindsets may change to accommodate the software.
Cape Educational Computer Society (CECS) becomes the first to advocate free software culture in South Africa. Many hackers gain their first experience of online world via Douglas Reeler's modem. Also in 1991, Kagenna Magazine publishes an article on Cyberpunk by Dr Tim Leary, the first time the word is mentioned in print in South Africa.
The goals of the project are to build a community of interest around computer science, and to provide a focal point for coordinating efforts to improve Wikipedia's computer science articles. The scope of the project includes all articles in the area of computer science , including computer programming and software engineering .