by Wouter Denayer | Jun 19, 2014 | csc
Yesterday evening we went to a local hotel-school to have a meet-and-greet with public officials from the North-West province. The whole ‘ceremony’ was animated by Charles Ndabeni, the new CEO of tourism. He started with a list of ‘did you know...
by Wouter Denayer | Jun 18, 2014 | csc
On Tuesday 17 we went for the first time to the Mahikeng campus were we will be working. In the morning we had a workshop with iNeSI to dive deeper into our, team two’s, sub-project. It was a very good session that clarified a lot. We got to use the very nice...
by Wouter Denayer | Jun 18, 2014 | csc
On Monday we traveled to Mmabatho where we will be staying for the next three weeks. The 300 km trip took more than five hours. After checking into the hotel Professor emeritus Modise Maaja gave us a short introduction to the history of the North-West university. It...
by Wouter Denayer | Jun 15, 2014 | csc
Today we had a workshop with the two leaders of iNeSI (Ikamva National eSkills Institute), the organisation that we are working with. We all presented ourselves and our backgrounds. iNeSI stressed the importance of our mission for the future of South-Africa at a time...
by Wouter Denayer | Jun 14, 2014 | csc
Today started with a session at the IBM South-Africa headquarters. With our team’s diverse backgrounds it looked like a mini United Nations session 🙂 We were briefed by the country general manager on the specific business context like the black economic...
by Wouter Denayer | Jun 13, 2014 | csc
Today was a wonderful day in Johannesburg and not only because of the beautiful weather. You couldn’t tell that it is actually winter over here with the blue sky and the warm sunshine. After settling in to the very nice hotel three of us explored the shopping...