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French South African Tech Labs

The French South African Tech Labs (FSAT Labs) is an incubator and accelerator for French and South African tech start-ups, based in Century City, Cape Town. It offers 400 sqm of incubation & acceleration space. Based on the partnership between Seda (Small Enterprise Development Agency) and Methys, the FSAT Labs is a new service for entrepreneurs who desire to become powerful changemakers. Twice a year, we select and support a new class of entrepreneurs.

Smartagriot

Smartagriot is an agriculture data and analytics business based in Durban. Our platform helps clients to analyze, interpret, and gain real-time insight into projects spanning over large geographies while enabling businesses to drive digitization as the core of their business strategy. Our cutting-edge solutions use Data analytics, Artificial Intelligence, and Remote Sensing capabilities to provide meaningful insights across different levels of the value chain helping them make smarter decisions from sowing till selling. Smartagriot Application is a cloud-based system, which takes an integrated

SOLID BUILT MOBILES

Solid Built Mobiles (Pty) Ltd., is a building and industrial company located in the south of Johannesburg (Alrode), that specialize in the building of fully-relocatable mobile housing units as well as the production and sale of plastic components through the process of injection molding. We have a wide array of plastic products available in various sizes, colours and materials. Our housing units are practical, cost-effective and maintenance-free. We aspire to provide our clients with the highest quality products as well as world-class service.

The Pee Basin

The Pee Basin is a Urinal Unit fitted with a hand wash basin, allowing the user to pee, wash their hands and flush off the urine, all in one motion.
The Pee Basin is a urinal unit that encourages hand washing with every pee/flush and saves the user water with every flush.

The Rapid Wash Hand Wash Station

The Rapid Wash is a 40 liter portable hand wash station, fitted with a hand wash basin; allowing the user to have access to fresh portable hand washing water where there isn't readily available or access to water I. e; Mall Entrance, Taxi Ranks, Bus Stops, School Entrances & Corridors, School Playgrounds, etc.
The unit operates in dual function catering for users who have access to water and those who do not.
The unit can be filled with fresh water and soap OR hand wash sanitizer.

TeleAfya

TeleAfya in partnership with Etechtouch connects patients to board-certified doctors, Nurses, Nurse Assistants, Mid-Wives and diagnostic labs 24 hours a day.

An assessment of COVID-19 health education and information dissemination platforms in rural KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa

In South Africa, several measures have been taken by government to prevent and mitigate the spread of COVID-19. Interventions implemented include, community education, establishing lab testing capacity, social distancing, promoting regular handwashing, closure of schools and a ban on mass gathering. Further measures like closing the borders to international travel, intensified curtailment of human interactions through a national lockdown, door-to-door screening, surveillance, testing, isolation and contact tracing in the community have been implemented to curtail community spread of the

Measuring Social Contact in Rural KwaZulu-Natal during the Covid-19 Epidemic

We aim to identify the impact of government regulations for COVID-19 on social interaction and behaviour. To achieve this we will interview 400 residents of the Africa Health Research Institute Population Intervention Platform area in northern KwaZulu-Natal. These interviews will be repeated every two weeks up to eight times. We will collect information on the frequency and characteristics of social contacts during the Covid-19 epidemic, and assess how the effect of government policies varies by by age, gender, comorbidity and social position. We will compare these results to data from 2019 on

SAPRIN Covid-19 Surveillance

A coordinated system of disease surveillance will be critical to effectively control the coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) pandemic. Such systems enable rapid detection and mapping of epidemics and inform allocation of scarce prevention and intervention resources. Although many lower- and middle-income settings lack infrastructure for optimal disease surveillance, health and demographic surveillance systems (HDSS) provide a unique opportunity for epidemic monitoring.
The South African Population Research Infrastructure Network, has repurposed the health and demographic surveillance systems

South African Population Research Infrastructure Network

South African Population Research Infrastructure Network (SAPRIN) is a long-term investment into a national research infrastructure funded by the national Department of Science and Innovation (DSI) and hosted by the South African Medical Research Council. It brings together and harmonises all three of South Africa’s existing health and demographic surveillance sites (HDSS) and two newly identified urban nodes in Gauteng and the Western Cape. The long-standing rural nodes are the MRC/Wits University Agincourt HDSS in Bushbuckridge District, Mpumalanga, established in 1993, with a population of

Prosel limited

Prosel Ltd was established in 1988 as a design consultancy as well as manufacturing and installation of steel structures, lighting, customized fabrication, and developing sign technology for the African market. The pioneers of Prosel Ltd. have enormous experience having been in the industry for many years. The collective experience was pooled into Prosel Ltd & with focus and dedication has resulted in us becoming a market leader. Specialized in the production of signages for the petrol stations, Banking and retail sectors. We are able to develop turnkey solutions that offer the design

Ignite Power

Ignite Power is the fastest-growing Pan-African developer and financier of solar solutions, providing governments with a nationwide-scale deployment of electrification projects. We focus on affordability, scalability, sustainability, and community as the main pillars of operations. To achieve this ambition, we have constructed collaborative business models encompassing all-inclusive payment systems and local government engagement. With over 1.4 million customers throughout the SSA region and millions more to be connected throughout the continent, Ignite Power is leading the way to a more

COVID-19 Biosensing kit

COVID-19 Biosensing kit will be used to detect the virus via antigen-antibody reaction. Nanoparticle synthetic platform will be functional with antibody-immobilized complex and be fitted in a plastic device. By spitting and blowing on the device antibody-antigen interaction signal mechanism will indicate positive or negative results.

Manufacturing

- The desired nanoparticles will be synthesised with functionality of immobilised pecific Covid-19 antibodies to make testing model
-Characterization of testing model
-Parkaging the model to a device

COVID-19 Biosensing kit will be used by

UCT ViZAR

The UCT ViZAR is a comfortable, disposable face shield that has followed a user-centric design approach to meet all of the needs of the wearer.

The soft profiled foam brow allows for the visor to sit against the forehead while not irritating the skin. This also allows for a space between the shield and face, reducing the chance of fogging on the visor. The soft fabric elastic backing enables the visor to fit many head shapes and hairstyles. The UCT ViZAR has been designed for longer period use to maintain the much-needed safety and comfort of the user.

COVID-19 Real time Contact Tracing app

My innovation gathers real time data of interactions and contact between people as they go about their daily lives. This information is stored in a secure server used by the medical department to protect identity.

When a person who has this app running on their smart phone is tested positive for COVID-19, medical personell can then retrieve their app ID and access the data which will tell them who the person was recently in contact with for the past 31 days.

Through the app a health personel can contact the potentially infected people and find out if they are experiencing any symptoms and

Itaga Trading

Itaga Trading was established in July 2010. The company has a broad service offering in the civil works, optical fibres installation, floating, microwaves installation, RF and splicing in telecommunications industry. Since inception, Itaga Trading has significantly established a niche market in the project management sector. The company has since been commissioned by MCT, Sizwe IT Group to do project work for DFA, Cell C, Vodacom, and Metro fibre. These projects involved major civil works, Microwaves and optic fibre cabling around the country. All these projects were successfully completed on