AfricanBrains welcomes the following as Partners & Sponsors

Main Event Sponsor & Diamond Session Partners

Main Event Sponsor

Hewlett-Packard

HPTechnology can create entirely new teaching and learning experiences. That is why HP, as a leading technology company, is in a strong position to support education at universities and schools. IT is not only a subject in its own right; it is also an essential tool for learning and teaching all other subjects.

But it takes more than just technology to raise test scores and inspire students. What really spurs progress is an understanding of how to use technology to improve the quality of education. Through its Innovation in Education program, HP is an active partner in the creation of new models of teaching and learning.

HP is not only investing into education specific technology and educational software but also promoting via the HP Catalyst Initiative some of the most innovative student projects at secondary schools and universities in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). The focus is on science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM).

HP is supporting education communities such as www.hp.com/go/TeacherExperience for teachers or www.projectred.org for anybody interested to learn about the key factors of successful implementation of technology in education. A website dedicated to demonstrate how the technologies available in a digital learning environment can be the catalyst for teaching and learning can be found here www.guide2digitallearning.com

For more information in general please visit www.hp.com/go/education

Diamond Session Partners

Microsoft

MicrosoftMicrosoft’s mission in education is to help every student and educator around the world realize their full potential. At Microsoft, we are deeply committed to working with governments, communities, schools, and educators to use the power of information technology to deliver technology, services, and programs that provide anytime, anywhere learning for all. We believe an educated population is the one natural resource that increases in value as it increases in size.

Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

The company offers a wide range of products and services designed to empower people through great software – any time, any place and on any device.

Website – www.microsoft.com/education

Oracle

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) engineers hardware and software to work together in the cloud and in your data center. With more than 390,000 customers — including 100 of the Fortune 100 — in more than 145 countries around the globe, Oracle is the only vendor able to offer a complete technology stack in which every layer is engineered to work together as a single system. Oracle’s industry-leading cloud-based and on-premises solutions give customers complete deployment flexibility and unmatched benefits including unbreakable security, high availability, scalability, energy efficiency, powerful performance, and low total cost of ownership. For more information, visit www.oracle.com

Google

Google Logo smallerGoogle in Education provides open technologies to improve learning for everyone, everywhere. Work, share, and learn together with affordable devices and familiar platforms – for schools, universities, or entire countries. Solutions include programs to help schools and universities bring their users online, Google Apps for Education, Chromebooks, and a wide range of content including apps, books, and videos for learning.

Website – www.google.com/edu

IBM

IBMIBM is a globally integrated technology and consulting company headquartered in Armonk, New York. With operations in more than 170 countries, IBM attracts and retains some of the world’s most talented people to help solve problems and provide an edge for businesses, governments and non-profits.

Innovation is at the core of IBM’s strategy. The company develops and sells software and systems hardware and a broad range of infrastructure, cloud and consulting services.

Today, IBM is focused on four growth initiatives – business analytics, cloud computing, growth markets and Smarter Planet. IBMers are working with customers around the world to apply the company’s business consulting, technology and R&D expertise to build systems that enable dynamic and efficient organizations, better transportation, safer food, cleaner water and healthier populations.

Website – www.ibm.com

Bi-Bright

Bi-Bright logo 300Bi-Bright is part of the Bi-silque group, the leading specialist manufacturer of visual communication products based in Portugal. We supply to more than 60 countries in 5 continents and doing so for almost 40 years.

Our proven track record of innovation, quality and service has enabled us to become the chosen partner for many of the world’s leading companies

But what makes Bi-Bright different?

Decades of experience in producing traditional whiteboards and presentation products enables us to understand the use, application and demands of classroom environment. We have taken that experience to create the total interactive solution for the modern teaching environment.

Our interactive solution includes Interactive Whiteboards and Touchscreen LCD, Tablets, Projectors and a full range of resources. Our strategy has created a solution that is of the highest quality, accuracy and responsiveness; providing the ultimate user friendly experience.

Website – www.bibright.com

Positivo BGH

Positivo BGH 400pxPBG Rwanda Limited is a diversified ICT and home appliances company, focused on improving people’s lives through meaningful innovation in the areas of Consumer Lifestyle and Education.

Our Mission is to bring innovation to people, anywhere, by creating and delivering reliable and ease of use technology products, for communication, comfort at home, and human knowledge development.

The company is the result of the joint venture between two leaders in such areas in Latin America; Positivo Informática from Brazil and BGH from Argentina.

Recently established in Kigali, Rwanda, and proudly African, PBG Rwanda Limited will manufacture and distribute in Africa ICT and home appliances products and services, including PCs and other consumer electronics products for education and comfort purposes, investing in human capital development, transferring know how through its world class management team.

Website – www.positivobgh.com.ar

Huawei

HuaweiHuawei is a leading global ICT solutions provider. Through our dedication to customer-centric innovation and strong partnerships, we have established end-to-end capabilities and strengths across the carrier networks, enterprise, consumer, and cloud computing fields. We are committed to creating maximum value for telecom carriers, enterprises and consumers by providing competitive ICT solutions and services. Our products and solutions have been deployed in over 140 countries, serving more than one third of the world’s population.

Huawei’s vision is to enrich life through communication. By leveraging our experience and expertise in the ICT sector, we help bridge the digital divide by providing opportunities to enjoy broadband services, regardless of geographic location. Contributing to the sustainable development of society, the economy, and the environment, Huawei creates green solutions that enable customers to reduce power consumption, carbon emissions, and resource costs.

For more information, please visit: www.huawei.com

Gold Partners

Gold Partners

Promethean

Promethean’s roots began in education. Over the years we have grown into a leading education solutions provider, guiding and supporting forward-thinking institutions around the world in an effort to increase achievement among teachers and students alike.

Promethean passionately believes in transforming learning environments through the use of innovative classroom technology that motivates learning and improves student achievement. Our technology solutions produce a seamless interaction between teachers, students and the connected classroom.

Because learning never ends, neither does the need to inspire and be inspired – in classrooms, training rooms, conference rooms and beyond. This core belief led us to the decision to expand our integrated, interactive offerings outside of the classroom and into the business and government sectors. Our range of solutions includes Activboard leading interactive whiteboard solution, learning response systems such as ActivExpression2 and ActiVote or the award winning software ActivInspire.

Promethean proudly maintains the world’s largest online community of educators on a dedicated website: PrometheanPlanet.com. At Promethean Planet, you will discover an active community, buzzing with inspiration, ideas and support, as well as a warehouse of premium and free resources—including interactive lessons, educator forums and training courses.

More information – www.prometheanworld.com

John Wiley & Sons

Wiley is a global provider of content-enabled solutions that improve outcomes in research, education, and professional practice. Our core businesses produce scientific, technical, medical, and scholarly journals, reference works, books, database services, and advertising; professional books, subscription products, certification and training services and online applications; and education content and services including integrated online teaching and learning resources for undergraduate and graduate students and lifelong learners.

Founded in 1807, John Wiley & Sons, Inc. has been a valued source of information and understanding for more than 200 years, helping people around the world meet their needs and fulfil their aspirations. Wiley and its acquired companies have published the works of more than 450 Nobel laureates in all categories: Literature, Economics, Physiology or Medicine, Physics, Chemistry, and Peace. Wiley’s global headquarters are located in Hoboken, New Jersey, with operations in the U.S., Europe, Asia, Canada, and Australia.

Website – www.wiley.com

Lenovo

Lenovo

At Lenovo, our vision is that Lenovo will create personal devices more people are inspired to own, a culture more people aspire to join and an enduring, trusted business that is well respected around the world. This vision guides us in pursuit of our mission to become one of the world’s great personal technology companies.

We will accomplish this through:

  • Personal Computers: Lead in PCs and be respected for our product innovation and quality
  • Convergence: Lead the industry with an ecosystem of devices, services, applications and content for people to seamlessly connect to people and web content
  • Culture: Become recognized as one of the best, most trusted and most well-respected companies to work for and do business with.

Website – www.lenovo.com

Intel Corporation

Intel EducationSince its founding in 1968, Intel Corporation has grown into the world’s largest semiconductor company (based on revenue). The company employs nearly 100,000 people across more than 50 countries.

Intel’s products and technologies are at the heart of computing solutions that have become essential parts of businesses, homes and schools around the world; and are being used to tackle some of the world’s most complex problems – in areas that include education, healthcare, economic development, and environmental sustainability. The company’s products include microprocessors, chipsets and other semiconductor products that are integral to computers, servers, note- and netbooks, as well as consumer electronics, handheld devices and connected “embedded” products becoming part of cars, shopping kiosks and bank ATMs.

Intel’s focus in not solely on the products it delivers. From primary schools to leading universities, Intel is committed to improving the quality of education around the world. Over the past decade alone Intel has invested over USD 1 billion and Intel employees have donated over 2.5 million hours in the last 10 years toward improving education in more than 50 countries.

Intel’s model for education transformation combines advocacy for policy reform, curriculum standards and assessment, sustained professional development, information and communications technology, and support of research and evaluation. We collaborate with governments, policy makers, and local vendors to make this model viable worldwide.

Intel is headquartered in Santa Clara, California (USA). Additional information about the company is available at blogs.intel.com.

eLearning Solutions

eLearning SolutionsEveryone learns differently!

eLearning Solutions plans, designs, deploys and manages sustainable ICT based learning solutions. Our mission is to build the next generation high impact, technology-driven solutions that support teachers and engage learners closing the 21st century curriculum and pedagogy gaps.

Training, Workshops & Consulting
  • 21st Century Skills Workshops for ICT Teachers
  • Professional Development for School Leaders, Subject Matter & Grade Teachers
  • Teacher orientation sessions & training
  • Digital Literacy & Entrepreneurship Training Program
  • ICT in Education Policy Development for schools, clusters, districts, provinces, etc.
  • ICT Project Management, Monitoring & Evaluation
  • Education Performance Excellence Program
  • Consulting in digital learning implementation and adoption
Infrastructure (Software, Hardware & Facilities)
  • ICT Facilities Supply, Support and Maintenance
  • Classmate PC – Clamshell and Convertible Student Laptops
  • Notebook PC – Laptops for teachers designed to manage Classmates
  • Education Appliance (School Server for Learning, Administration & Networking)
  • Upgrading school infrastructure to leverage the learning solutions
  • System maintenance and technical support
  • Provision of end-to-end digital learning solutions (e-Learning software, security & child content filtering, classmate PCs, hardware, systems & network infrastructure)
  • Mobile Carts with charging kits for storing and moving Notebooks & Laptops
Digital Curriculum Content
  • Digitization of print material Authoring and development of e-content
  • Customization of our current curriculum materials to meet your needs
  • Design and development of e-newsletters and websites, product presentations, demonstrations and fun corporate messages
  • Assessment centres
  • Materials development and content authoring
  • Copy editing & proofreading

Website – www.elearning.co.zw

JS Group

Operating in the UK and Africa, the JS Group meets the information and technology needs of the higher education sector. Our business consists of three main groups, John Smith’s, Aspire and JS International.

  • John Smith’s run campus student stores in the UK supplying everything a student could need to support their studies.
  • Aspire is a smartcard technology solution that universities and sponsors use for the cashless distribution of book allowances and other financial awards.
  • JS International is a business that operates in Africa running some of the largest, world-class campus bookshops on the continent.  JS International works with a number of universities in Botswana, Ghana, Lesotho and Swaziland.

Our partner company, Kortext, is a leading eBook platform which is dedicated to providing students 24/7 access to their eTextbooks.  With the ability to download content on 5 separate devices, Kortext really is able to provide students access to their books anywhere and anytime.

To find out more about the JS Group please visit www.johnsmithgroup.com

Vodacom

Vodacom smallerVodacom Business Africa – Africa’s largest pan-African Service Provider

An enterprise focused ICT subsidiary of the Vodacom Group. Vodacom Business Africa offers total connectivity services to multinational organisations operating across Africa and the world, supported by industry experts on the ground in over 16 countries and offering a dedicated 24/7 customer service operations centre to ensure our customers get visibility of their operations from anywhere on the globe.

Website – www.vodacom.com/Africa

Festo Didactic

Do you need to bridge industry and education, close the skills gap that’s holding you back?

Festo is both; we know how to educate for industry’s needs. We are global leaders both in innovative industrial automation, and in technical education that is hands-on, inspiring and industry-relevant.

Festo was founded in 1925, has a presence in over 250 countries, and invests strongly in research and training. Festo Didactic is the educational division, and has been active in Southern Africa for 40 years. Where there is industry, there is Festo.

Festo Didactic delivers training for productivity through seminars for industry, and training for employability by bringing cutting-edge industrial technology into the engineering classrooms of the world, building the core skills for successful industrialisation.

Festo Didactic supplies:

  • Training Panels for Vocational Institutes
  • Technology Workstations for Polytechnics
  • Learning Factories for Universities
  • Textbooks, Simulation Software and E-Learning
  • Train-the-Trainer

Festo Didactic consults in:

  • Matching Curricula to Industry
  • Lab Design
  • Market Survey and Implementation

Festo Didactic is a Global Partner for the WorldSkills International competitions in:

  • Mechatronics
  • Mobile Robotics

We are the engineers of productivity.
Engage us on how to build your industry of tomorrow, today.

Website – www.festo-didactic.com

Integrated Technology Group

From its beginning ITG (Integrated Technology Group) was fortunate to be established and led by a few visionaries that created principles to building a dynamic, innovative and technology driven group of companies. 25 years of carrying on the main principles and hard work, ITG is proud of seeing our clients as partners of success as together we were able to build these achievements.

Educational Solutions: EduWave® e-Learning & Educational Management Platform and e-Content Development

Government/Enterprise Solutions: WaveGRP® Government Resource Planning; WaveERP®, Enterprise Resource Planning; WaveDMS® Document Management System

With headquarter in Jordan, ITG’s network of strategic partners nowadays cover more than 21 countries worldwide in Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and Africa. The Exceptional demand on our solutions made the strategic decision of investing and creating new branches in certain countries simple; ITG-America, ITG-Asia, and recently ITG-Saudi were established then.

Website – www.itgsolutions.com

Autodesk

Autodesk

The challenges of today will be solved by the designers of tomorrow. That’s why Autodesk, a world leader in 3D design, engineering, and entertainment software for manufacturing, building, construction and media & entertainment, gives students, educators, and educational institutions FREE access to our full-version, professional design software, creativity apps, and learning resources. A market leader for more than 30 years, Autodesk offers the broadest and deepest portfolio of products in the design world.

To learn more about what Autodesk has to offer, visit www.autodesk.com/education

  • Educational licenses with stand-alone, network and multi-seat stand-alone options, for deploying in the school, or installing on students and teachers home computers.
  • As students use design to solve problems they discover potential careers and master professional workflows to do more and work faster.
  • Educators learn and teach their way—by tutorial, project, or community with resources and expert networks to enable quick success and deeper skills development.
  • Students can take their skills to the next level, show off their talents, and build a portfolio by entering Autodesk-sponsored competitions.

Autodesk Certification and the Education Expert Network help students validate skills, build experience, and boost resumes.

Teachers Media International (TMI)

TMI SmallerTeachers Media International is a global provider of multi-media professional development and accredited training services, whose aims are to ensure teachers and educators around the world, are trained, inspired and supported to be the very best.

Our approach is based on developing reflective practitioners and encouraging professional development that is collaborative and focused upon real school practice. This approach is vital to sustainable improvement in teaching and learning.

Leading the way in education, TMI supports governments, school leaders, and educators with a range of scalable and sustainable professional development training services, providing 24/7 connectivity, learning support and customised resources.

Our products and services are based on a mixture of workshops, accredited courses and an online community learning platform service, customisable to the needs of the country/region.

Research shows that teachers and educators are very likely to transform their practice if provided the opportunity to experience alternative strategies in a real classroom setting. That is why broadcast-quality video is at the heart of our services.

Website – www.teachersmedia.co

Brother

Brother logoFor more than a century, Brother has won recognition as a brand synonymous with delivering product innovation and customer satisfaction. A Japanese company founded in 1908, Brother has 19 production facilities and 43 sales companies operating in 41 countries in different regions today.

Brother is now a leading brand that produces quality innovative products for the print and imaging, labelling and sewing markets. Key products include laser printers, Multi-Function Centres (MFCs), fax machines, labellers, label printers, and a wide range of home and industrial sewing machines. A trusted brand worldwide that believes in the “Customer First” approach in all aspects of our business, Brother has continuously met the varied needs of our customers through our comprehensive range of quality solutions.

BROTHER INTERNATIONAL (GULF) FZE is a subsidiary of Brother Industries, Ltd., one of the global leaders in the development and manufacturing of technologies in the printing, communication and digital imaging industries for homes, SOHOs and enterprises. The company’s headquarters for Middle East, Africa and Turkey, with fully integrated sales, marketing and services capabilities, is located at the Jebel Ali Free Zone in Dubai. BROTHER INTERNATIONAL (GULF) FZE has authorized distributors across the MENA region, including Africa and Turkey.

Website – www.brother.ae

Silver Partners

Silver Partners

Samsung Education in Africa

SamsungSamsung knows that to be sustainable in Africa it needs to invest in African thought-leadership and ensure the development of a large pool of skilled resources. The company believes the best possible way to do this is by connecting its legacy of innovation with its desire to improve lives, and its business goals on the continent.  Its education strategy is focused on skills development, rural access and connectivity, and bringing the best possible technology into the classroom environment for both privileged and underprivileged schools.

In addition, the company knows that a child’s health is closely tied to the ability to learn at full potential, so it is also invested in improving healthcare and developing programs that speak to the broader basic needs of communities. So far, the company has developed the following unique solutions to cater to these issues: Samsung Electronics Engineering Academies, Solar Powered Internet School, Solar Power Generator, Solar Powered Health Centre, Tele-Medicine Centre, eLearning Centres, and Smart School Solutions.

Together these programs will help the company meet its goal of directly impacting the lives of 5 million Africans by 2015.

Website – www.samsung.com/africa_en

Pearson

Pearson

Pearson is the world’s leading learning company and forms part of the global education and media group that includes Longman and the Financial Times. We partner with governments and institutions to create innovative solutions to improve learner achievement and institutional effectiveness. Pearson supports learning from the time a child enters school and throughout his or her educational journey. We create and connect content, technology, assessment and services to offer unique learning solutions. We deliver services that can help schools and academic institutions achieve their goals. We’ve acted as consultants to governments and institutions on education, professional development and curriculum redesign. For more than a decade, we have worked with educators and learners to track learning gains and we hold ourselves accountable for not just the products we make, but also for the results we deliver.

Our depth and breadth of experience in education and our commitment to learning sets us apart. Every day, 40,000 Pearson employees in 80 countries strive to bring better, more personalised learning experiences to our customers.

Website – www.pearson.com

JP – Inspiring Knowledge

Founded in March 1989, JP – inspiring knowledge is dedicated to the design, development and distribution of Technological Solutions, and leader of a global reference initiative pioneering ICT-based Education. JP – inspiring knowledge manufactures high-quality computer equipment, like the leading brands mymaga, mgseries and Tsunami, and strives for the strength, competitiveness, innovation and quality of their products.

Mission

To deliver purpose-built solutions for education through ICT products and services that foster human development.

At JP-inspiring knowledge we build custom products and services that are specific to each educational context and have developed a network of key global players with vast experience in ICT and Education.

We are working to bridge the digital divide in Education between and within countries, allowing each country to provide equal access to the best available pedagogical tools. It is our objective to assure that children develop successfully and leapfrog into the new global society.

Achievements

Based on existing agreements and projects running, JP – inspiring knowledge is the world largest OEM deploying Intel® Classmate student devices. We are currently operating in more than 70 countries directly or through partners, and have delivered over 7 million student devices worldwide.

Website – www.mymagalhaes.com

IDvelop

Global Educational Solutions for Africa

We are an independent education solution integrator and project management company. We have had a love for and an experience of the African continent for over a decade.

We believe in teacher’s development, the use of technology in a sensible manner, curriculum, Science-Technology-Maths (STEM) education, knowledge transfer & sustainability. Most of all, we believe that no educational problem is ever the same.

We work with you to understand your educational issues and find a solution. This includes assistance in obtaining financing and working together with local partners on the project management until local partners can take over.

We are result driven as a private company. We are your backup and together we make sure that you have all the tools to run the project in the future.

www.idvelop.fr

Elsevier

Elsevier

Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology professionals, empowering them to make better decisions, deliver better care, and sometimes make groundbreaking discoveries that advance the boundaries of knowledge and human progress. Elsevier provides web-based, digital solutions — among them ScienceDirect, Scopus, Elsevier Research Intelligence and ClinicalKey — and publishes nearly 2,200 journals, including The Lancet and Cell, and over 26,000 book titles, including a number of iconic reference works.

The company is part of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, a world leading provider of professional information solutions in the Science, Medical, Legal and Risk and Business sectors, which is jointly owned by Reed Elsevier PLC and Reed Elsevier NV. The ticker symbols are REN (Euronext Amsterdam), REL (London Stock Exchange), RUK and ENL (New York Stock Exchange).

Website – www.elsevier.com

Acer

Acer

Established in 1976, Acer is an information and communication technology company dedicated to the research, design, marketing, sale and support of innovative products that enhance people’s lives. Acer’s green supply chain delivers environmentally friendly PCs, displays, projectors, servers, tablets and smartphones — tools our customers need to explore beyond limits and experience more. Acer employs 7,400 people and ranks No. 4 for total PCs globally (IDC 2013). Estimated revenues for 2013 reached US$12.03 billion. Please visit www.acer.com for more information.

Cengage Learning

Cengage Learning is a leading educational content, technology, and services company for the higher education and K-12, professional and library markets worldwide. The company provides superior content, personalized services and course-driven digital solutions that accelerate student engagement and transform the learning experience.

Cengage Learning is Engaged with…
  • Students – By engaging with you and listening to how you work best, we are creating products and solutions to fit your learning style and help keep you engaged – wherever you are. We are putting students first in the development of educational materials and are transforming the learning process to help you succeed.
  • Educators – Faculty tell us that their job is to Engage Students. Our job is to help. Engaging your students means to advance, challenge and inspire them in the classroom and beyond. By working together to develop solutions with the end–user in mind, and supporting your efforts with unparalleled services and support, we can help you cultivate engaged learners, resulting in better outcomes.
  • Librarians – Information must be used to be valuable. You are curators of authoritative material, and together, with our content and digital tools, we can help you to engage your users with the treasures of the library.
  • Employees – We are dedicated to improving engagement, and that begins by engaging our people. We learn as a team. Together we help others learn.

For more, visit: www.cengage.co.uk

Lucas-Nülle GmbH

Lucas NuelleCommitted to technology and quality

For now 40 years, Lucas-Nülle has been developing and producing sophisticated high-quality training systems in Kerpen/Germany. These systems cover the whole field of electrical engineering including:

  • Power Engineering/Renewable Energies
  • Automotive Technology
  • Electrical Machines and Drives
  • Refrigeration System Technology
  • Automation Technology
  • Electrical Installation Technology
  • Lab Systems

Lucas-Nülle training systems are deployed throughout the world where they are seen as the benchmark for quality, efficiency and technology.

We are able to provide turn-key solutions including curricula, lab-world layout, installation and training.

Ensuring a successful future

Lucas-Nülle GmbH has devoted itself to this challenge. Working within a German tradition of demanding vocational training and engineering schooling, we have been developing and manufacturing training equipment and systems for key technologies.

Website – www.lucas-nuelle.com

PHYWE Systeme GmbH

PHYWE - 100 yearsFor 100 years PHYWE has been developing, producing, supplying and installing

  • scientific equipment
  • complete experiments
  • curriculum compliant solution systems

for science education and scientific research at schools and universities.

Modern e-Learning systems, software and a broad spectrum of services including training courses, on-site installation and comprehensive pre-sales consulting complete our offering.

Our competence, quality and reliability – made in Germany – has enabled us to become one of the world leading companies for the supply of training and educational equipment for the teaching of Physics, Chemistry, Biology and Applied Sciences.

More than 145,000 customers in over 95 countries (including those in Africa for over 30 years) value our experience and products. PHYWE is your sought-after partner for schools, colleges, universities, private institutes, museums and research institutions worldwide.

A member of the Lucas-Nülle Group of companies and together with more than 60 PHYWE authorised International Sales Partners (ISP), we offer you individually tailored solutions from a single source.

Website – www.phywe.com

Oxford University Press Southern Africa

Oxford University PressOxford University Press Southern Africa is an educational publisher. We are committed to the growth of South Africa and its people through the provision of excellent educational materials and support.

We recognize the power of education to uplift and equip individuals and communities to better their lives.

We therefore strive to develop and deliver quality educational materials and support, based on the demands of learners, students, teachers and lecturers in Southern Africa.

We share the mission of Oxford University to bring excellence in education, scholarship and research to people around the world, and are proud to be part of this long tradition.

Oxford is one of the leading educational publishers in South Africa, producing a wide range of quality curriculum-compliant educational material.

Oxford has more than 2,700 locally-published books in 11 languages, written by close to 1,000 South African authors. We also sell educational books published by other Oxford branches around the world.

Our range includes:

  • School textbooks from Grade R to Grade 12
  • Higher Education textbooks for undergraduate and postgraduate students
  • General literature titles including prescription literature
  • Resources like dictionaries, atlases and reading schemes

Website – www.oxford.co.za

LectorSA

  • August 2014 LectorSAA Leader in the field of Researching and Developing cutting-edge Reading Intervention
  • An International company based in South Africa

Solutions – our subsidiary research and development company Ecoltech specializes in generating timeous solutions for future challenges and demands in the marketplace.

Creative and smart – we deliver first-to-market products and solutions grounded on scientific facts.

We create timeous innovative solutions compiled as smart strategic modules to supply in essential current and future educational demands since 1992.

We form partnerships in our quest for perfection we partner with world-class educators to produce innovative technology, meeting educational challenges with our precision developed solutions.

We understand our market we have made it our passion to research, understand and measure how the reading, education and knowledge demands are shifting globally.

We love our business – we pursue our business with enthusiasm and commitment. We engage with smart and lean teams. Our team is energetic, talented, motivated and productive.

…We are Solutioneers.

Lab-on-Line (a Cloud-hosted LectorSA solution) is proven to raise reading levels, accelerate cognition, increase visual- and language skills and develop reading strategies and learning abilities for its users within 10 – 20 lessons.  These advances correlates with improved academic performance.

Website – www.lectorsa.com

UC-Wireless

UC Wireless - smallerUC-Wireless is the distributor of Spōk; Spectralink; Omnitronics & Sagittar products and is a the Premium Top Dog Partner of Ruckus Wireless Enterprise Wi-Fi

  • All these products are certified, integrated & operate seamlessly delivering complete “UC” (Unified Communication) wirelessly.
  • Vertical markets relying on these solutions include Education; Healthcare; Emergency Services; Hospitality; Casino & Gaming; Mining and Industrial to name a few.

Ruckus and DisplayNote are being successfully implemented in the Education Sector, among others. Ruckus’ claim to fame is their patented Smart Wi-Fi technology which enables us to deliver longer range and more reliable Wi-Fi connections to client devices.

DisplayNote, a powerful Educator/ Presenter – Learner/Audience collaboration solution allows presentation content to be displayed (in real-time) on all tablets & PC’s participating over the Wi-Fi in an active lesson with the cloud version option to facilitate distance learning (with the use of the Internet).

Website – www.uc-wireless.com

Eagle Scientific

Eagle ScientificEagle Scientific are international project contractors, offering consultancy, vocational training, equipment supply and technical support. We have clients in both the public and private sectors, including the World Bank, ADB, Crown Agents, and various UN agencies.

We are a leading supplier of medical, research, educational, and vocational training equipment, with more than 30 years’ experience throughout the African continent.

As well as providing equipment, we have significant experience in the management of turnkey projects, from inception to installation, and on-going technical support. This includes:

  • Consultancy
  • Facility design
  • Equipment procurement
  • Installation and commissioning
  • Training of facility staff, to internationally recognized standards

Due to established relationships with leading UK academic institutions, we can also help with the development of curriculums and courseware material.

Recent examples of projects include:

  • 2010: Communications training laboratories, Algeria. Value $11,200,000
  • 2011: Supply of medical equipment, Ghana. Value $2,200,000
  • 2014: Oil and gas training workshops, Nigeria. Value $2,800,000

Website – www.eagle-scientific.co.uk

Texas Instruments DLP

Texas Instruments DLPSince 1996, award-winning DLP technology from Texas Instruments has powered the world’s top display devices to deliver high resolution images rich with color, contrast, clarity and brightness for a wide range of applications, including industrial, automotive, medical and interactive displays. DLP technology is being used in movie theaters (DLP Cinema®) and large-scale, professional venues and conference rooms, classrooms and home theaters. With mobile devices enabled by DLP Pico technology, users have the ability to display images from the palm of their hand. Every DLP chipset features an array of microscopic mirrors that switch on and off up to ten thousand times per second. To learn more, please visit www.DLP.com, or follow TI’s DLP technology on Twitter at www.Twitter.com/TI_DLP.

Website – www.dlp.com

Maravest Group – Schooling for the future

Maravest smallerMaravest is a private education company invested in pre-primary, primary and high schools. We have a footprint in Africa and Australasia.

Maravest educates children with the aim to impact the future through expanding our reach from our existing schools. We can achieve this by effectively equipping our children with a skill set for the ever changing world of tomorrow. This skill set focuses on the academic disciplines of science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM), currently receiving global focus.

Maravest has developed a collaborative STEM model, integrating companies, tertiary education institutions and independent schools for STEM schooling. The Maravest Group’s mission in STEM schooling is to close the skills gap between industry requirements and what higher education institutions deliver, whilst transforming the lives of tens of thousands of talented young people from Africa.

STEM education advances an interdisciplinary model of teaching and learning that produces a set of critical thinking and problem solving skills applicable to practically all fields of intellectual and professional enterprise. In short, the STEM education movement seeks to prepare students for the challenges of the 21st century.

Website – www.maravest.co.za

Time Quantum

tq_newOur Ecosystem
  • Proudly South African company established more than 20yrs ago
  • 51 % Black majority Owned & Managed; and further 49 % women owned
  • BBBEE Level 2 Accredited contributor
  • Our staff complement is currently 160, majority are professionals deployed in projects in the continent
  • Our Revenue is in excess of R120,000,000 million per annum
  • Our footprint in Africa spreads across, Ghana, Kenya, Nigeria, Lesotho, Mozambique, Botswana etc
  • MICT SETA Accredited
  • 4 Business Units: CONSULTING, APM & IDM, BANKING, SQA & TRAINING
Our Services & Solutions
  • Programme & Project Management
  • Change & Strategy Management
  • Business Process Management
  • Specialists IT & Executive Management Resourcing
  • Systems Integration and Development
  • ICT Strategy, Governance, Policies and Procedures
  • IT Security Solutions
  • Virtual & Application Performance Monitoring
  • Software Test Engineering
    • Quality Assurance
  • Training-Corporate Dynamics
    • Business Architecture
    • Enterprise Architecture
    • Business Analysis
    • Software Testing
    • Behavioural Skills & other Soft Skills
  • Banking Software Solutions
Our Clients

We provide our services & solutions to Public and Private sector clients across most key economic industries, Health, Education, Financial Services, Retail , Insurance

Our Partners

Oracle, Dell/Quest, Samsung, Microsoft, Compuware, SolarWinds, Riverbed, Smart Integration – Au

Website – www.timequantum.co.za

Moran (E.A.) Publishers Limited

Moran smallerMoran (E.A.) Publishers Limited is a vibrant publishing company whose operations and philosophy aim at adding value to both school and general publishing, Moran (E.A.) Publishers Limited has established itself as East Africa’s most respected publisher. We have extended our publishing activities and spread our market coverage.   The company has a vibrant and robust staff, led by a management team comprised of leaders with diverse backgrounds and experience that has made the company become an industry leader.

We are recognized for setting standards in:

  • Design, production, printing and distribution
  • Quality content
  • Selection and nurturing of authors
  • Meeting our customers’ expectations

In addition to production and distribution of our own imprints, Moran (E.A.) Publishers Limited provides a wide range of services such as distribution, fulfillment and content digitization among others to third party publishers.

All our publications are listed extensively in our catalogues, price lists and on our website www.moranpublishers.com

Gumbi Software Private Limited

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Satellite & Advanced Multimedia Education

Gumbi is a national award winning company for its contributions in technology assisted education to rural masses. Currently Gumbi’s programs reach an estimated 500,000 learners every year.

Firm has 93 months of Research & Development experience in edu-technology. Gumbi is partnered with various departments in Government of India, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore (IIMB), National Skill Development Corporation (NSDC), Electronics Corporation of India Limited (ECIL), National Small Industries Corp (NSIC) and so on.

Satellite & Advanced Multimedia Education (SAME) is a holistic future ready education platform pioneered by Gumbi Software Private Limited, a Bangalore (India) based Education Company. SAME is an interactive remote learning platform which uses Hybrid Satellite and Internet Technology to enable real time two-way audio, video interactions between experts teaching from broadcasting studio and thousands of students in the connected learning centres.

Apart from Mass learning mode, SAME supports Individualised learning and Peer learning for acquiring knowledge beyond classroom using mobile devices.

Hybrid model is a highly cost effective alternative to all similar Tele Education technologies.  As the quality is not affected by barriers of location and is grid independent, it is ideal in rural schools. SAME is tremendously successful in rural schools of India and can be replicated in Sub Saharan countries which have similar needs for providing quality education to disadvantaged children.

Website – www.gumbisoftware.com

Edutel Technologies Private Limited

Edutel smallerE-Content & Learning Management System

Edutel Technologies Private Limited is a Bangalore (India) based E-Content Development Company with a drive to create knowledge community of students. The firm creates immersive, interactive and real time learning experiences to disadvantaged students with the use of digital learning channels.

Over the years EDUTEL have innovated, developed and successfully implemented various technology platforms and student centric learning methodologies.  EDUTEL has a network of top faculty all across India to mentor thousands of rural and urban poor learners via satellite medium.

Through Econtent Development Services EDUTEL produces multimedia learning content for various academic and skill development programs. Scientifically developed content incorporates knowledge from multiple educators and transfers to needy learners.

A unique Learning Management System developed by EDUTEL integrates individualised learning and peer learning models to evolve learning beyond classroom by adding the essence of hands-on experiential learning, new educational philosophies, and new ways to address distinct learning styles. Edutel is working for urban poor children with support from Michael & Susan Dell Foundation (MSDF).

Website – www.edutel.in

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press

Cambridge University Press’s mission is to ‘further through publication and printing the University’s objective of advancing learning, knowledge and research worldwide’. This mission is achieved by producing academic books, educational software and textbooks, monographs, reference works, English Language Teaching materials, electronic publishing, Bibles and prayer books and over 300 academic journals.

Cambridge University Press is a leading educational publisher, publishing high-quality, curriculum-based books, software and digital resources for international, primary and secondary schools worldwide.

Cambridge is a market-leading publisher for Cambridge International Examinations (CIE) Checkpoint, Cambridge IGCSE and A Level qualifications, as well as a global publisher in IB Diploma resources.

The African Branch of Cambridge University Press, based in Cape Town, is responsible for all countries in sub-Saharan Africa. In addition to its marketing responsibilities, the Branch is pursuing a wide range of publishing activities in East, West, Central and Southern Africa, the main thrust of which is aimed at the school market.

Website – education.cambridge.org

ICDL Africa

ICDL logo - smallerICDL Africa manages the leading international end-user computer skills certification, ICDL, in Africa.

Over 13 million people have engaged with ICDL, in 41 languages, across 150 countries, through a network of over 24,000 test centres.

ICDL Africa is seeking reputable secondary schools, universities, commercial training organisations and government institutions to deliver ICDL across Africa.

Candidates choose the modules most relevant to them to build their unique ICDL Profile upskilling and reskilling over time as desired. Modules available include Online Collaboration, IT Security, and Word Processing. Visit our stand for more info / a demo of our products.

Website – www.icdlafrica.org

Avaya

Avaya smallerAvaya is known as a leader in helping organizations around the world succeed by integrating communications with business strategy and operations. In fact, Avaya came about as an independent company so it could bring even more focus to innovating in business communications.

In 1995, the company that would become Avaya was part of Lucent Technologies. Before that it had been part of AT&T. No matter its corporate parent, the employees were dedicated to understanding how communications could be a management tool, getting better and changing as business changed.

In 2000, Lucent’s management decided to spin off this business, which was then known as its enterprise communications group. The objective was to give the people who knew the business best the flexibility and focus to accelerate innovation and improve operations.

Website – www.avaya.com

Research Periodicals & Book Services (RPBS)

RPBS - logo smallerResearch Periodicals & Book Services (RPBS) USA is a leading supplier of educational material including scientific and technical publications such as journals, reference books, textbooks and e-resources. We work with major publishers, university presses and societies from around the world to supply your library with all the publications you need.

Website – www.rpbs.com

Branded Partners & Specials

Branded Partners

LEGO Education

Lego Education

LEGO Education delivers a hands-on learning system to preschools, schools and afterschool programs. Our portfolio inspires interest in Science, Technology, Engineering, Computer Science, Math and the Humanities. Based on the world-famous LEGO® brick, the company provides experiences and teaching materials for children in more than 130 countries.

Educational solutions from LEGO Education are based on a problem-solving approach. They help students learn to work together on solving challenging problems, providing them with an important basis for lifelong learning. When children use LEGO, three separate parts of the learning process are stimulated – logic, creativity, and imagination. By providing the best digital and physical resources for hands-on and creative learning experiences, LEGO Education believes that teachers and students will experience a new way to learn that is more effective, engaging and motivating. Furthermore, the students will be provided with skills that match the challenges of the world today.

With all of the above in place, LEGO Education is able to make a promise to educators to deliver an inspirational way to teach.

Website – www.education.lego.com

Ellucian

ellucian smallerEllucian provides innovative software and services to help education institutions thrive in an open and dynamic world. We deliver a broad portfolio of technology solutions, developed in collaboration with a global education community, and provide strategic guidance to help education institutions of all kinds navigate change, achieve greater transparency, and drive efficiencies. More than 2,400 institutions in 40 countries around the world look to Ellucian for the ideas and insights that will move education forward, helping people everywhere discover their futures through learning.

Visit us at www.ellucian.com

BenQ Corporation

BenQ - smallerFounded on the corporate vision of “Bringing Enjoyment ‘N’ Quality to Life”, BenQ Corporation is a world-leading human technology and solutions provider aiming to elevate and enrich every aspect of consumers’ lives. To realize this vision, the company focuses on the aspects that matter most to people today – lifestyle, business, healthcare and education – with the hope of providing people with the means to live better, increase efficiency, feel healthier and enhance learning. Such means include a delightful broad portfolio of people-driven products and embedded technologies spanning digital projectors, monitors, interactive large-format displays, audio products, cloud consumer products, mobile communications and lifestyle lighting. Because it matters.

Website – www.benq.com

Official 4G Partners

Broadband Systems Corporation (BSC)

BSC logoBSC looks to position itself as an Internet Service Provider whose focus is to empower the Government and private sector to achieve their goals efficiently by providing quality connectivity and value added services.

Value Proposition
  • Connectivity and Value added services to boost e-government service delivery, promote inter agencies e-collaboration and contribute to cost savings
  • Cross-border network services to overcome landlocked communication barriers
Business Structure

BSC will provide services categorized into two groups: Connectivity and Value-Added Services.

  1. Connectivity Services – Internet and Regional Connectivity for Government & Corporate Internet Capacity for ISPs
  2. Value Added Services – Office Collaboration services for Government and Corporate ICT Services for Events
Expanding possibilities

“Expanding your Possibilities” – It is the golden thread that sews together our innovations. It is a clear manifestation that Broadband Systems Corporation opens up your chances to explore, grow, have fun, and to achieve your dreams.

Website – www.bsc.rw

olleh Rwanda networks

ORN smallerIn June 2013, the Government of Rwanda and kt got into a Public Private Partnership (PPP) to install and activate a wide-ranging high-speed broadband network and also lead the extension of the nation’s online services capability, which are essential to achieve Rwanda’s goals in the ICT sector. oRn was established to deliver universal broadband access based on world-class 4G LTE technology on top of Rwanda’s national Fiber optic infrastructure and manage the fixed-mobile converged infrastructure as the wholesale provider of high-speed mobile broadband, covering 95% of the population within 4 years.?

oRn is the only 4G LTE infrastructure company in Rwanda, jointly invested by the Government of Rwanda and kt exclusively for wholesale provision of universal mobile broadband network in Rwanda using 4G LTE technology. The wholesale network service for mobile broadband will help to promote healthy competition for advanced retail services and solutions, and will benefit consumers, enterprises and the nation in transforming Rwanda into the ICT hub of East Africa.

Website – www.orn.rw

SI Partner to transform Africa

Africa olleh Services (AoS)

AoRAfrica olleh Services (AoS) is a Rwanda-based ICT service provider set up jointly by the Government of Rwanda and Korea Telecom in 2014. Through this partnership, the two parties agreed to collectively achieve grand goals: developing the ICT sector and fueling economic growth by enabling effective delivery of IT services across the region.

AoS will achieve the goal by bringing in cutting-edge and proven ICT technologies from Korea Telecom and global ICT leaders. Specifically for the Government, AoS commits itself to facilitate the Government ICT strategy, Smart Rwanda Master Plan (SRMP). By transferring capabilities, experiences and best practices from Korea and by empowering people with ICT skills and knowledge, AoS serves the Government and foster the Rwandan ICT industry.

Vision

Support and Facilitate Smart Rwanda Initiative and Vision 2020 Realization.

Mission
  • Transfer Korea Telecom’s capability, experience and best practice in Rwanda.
  • Foster Rwandan ICT by empowering people with ICT skills and knowledge.
Objectives
  • Get maximum advantage of universal broadband connectivity for efficiency of administration, enhancement of productivity, optimization of resource allocation through GoR SI project.
  • To provide national computing power through Cloud/IDC facilities.
  • To expand smart Rwanda ICT model to the African continent through EAC first.
  • To create start up business and app economy environment.

Website – www.aos.rw