Empire Partner Foundation hosted an open day on the 22nd of September 2022 with the De Beers team to showcase the tech solutions available within our EPF Tech Hub. Our teams in our EPF Tech hub showcased the tech solutions that they are still in the concept faze and some that are live solutions getting ready for market. The Open day event gave us an opportunity to build good relationships but also to move towards are solution focused future.
1. Township Distribution Model (TDM) - The company focuses on SMME Development, Manufacturing, Township Data, Brand Activation, Funding and
Financing township start-ups. Their solutions allow TDM to continue to build the township economy.
2. Zibuza.net - An online professional learning community platform provides educational resources to students, teachers and allows them to build a
beneficial education community that has access to educational resources. The resources are available to everyone due to different language inclusion.
3. Hippocampus (Personal Digital Tutor using Al) - The person digital tutor allows students to gain education in specific subjects such as engineering and
mining for university students, maths, and sciences for high school students.
4. Reatec is an integrated Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) reporting tool that uses Software as a service (Saas). This platform currently
monitors SMME development in specific business projects and can be tailored to client's needs.
5. Skills Blackboard (Uses Artificial Intelligence to analyse the skills, experience and education required for a particular role and matches this to the skills,
experience, and education of the candidates.
6. GBV Mobile Application this is an app developed to reduce the occurrence of gender-based violence cases. By creating a trust circle someone in danger
can alert their circle and the police immediately.
7. Progress Reporting Tool - This tool allows businesses to monitor working progress of their employees and as well as to manage interns. Currently the
EPF Innovation campus uses to the tool to manage the MICT SETA interns.
8. Workstreams - Digital Community engagement platform that allows better communication engagement with industry leaders and community
members to align solving socio-economic solutions.
What is encouraging is that De Beers team has established ICT programs in Musina and Blouberg, which align with EPFS mandate to build a better future for the youth in South Africa.
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The Empire Partner Foundation Tech Hub is a non-profit organisation that was started by a group of young South Africans. Our goal is to build South Africa, and eventually the continent of Africa, by solving key challenges through tech. The Empire Partner Foundation has launched multiple activities to achieve their goal in building Africa in Tech.
We have a wide range of technologies at EPF Tech Hub that support Africa’s progress and development. As a technology community, we promote innovative thinking. We bring people with similar interests, but with a focus on technology to create an environment that enables both individuals and businesses to thrive. We support the progress and development of Africa with technology.
The Incubation hub is an opportunity for the winning hackathon teams to build a tech start up around their winning solutions from the hackathons. We believe that the solutions our country needs lie in its youth, therefore we pride ourselves on developing young entrepreneurs with radical ideas and disruptive solutions that are innovative and sustainable
The EPF Tech Fund is a privately managed Venture Capital Company. The investors in the fund are companies that are committed to future-proofing Africa by investing in youth-led technology solutions that are scalable across the continent.We look for high-growth, high-impact businesses able to deliver exceptional returns along with sustained socio-economic impact.