Bandwidth Barn

-Project status: Active
-Sectors: Non-profit Activity
-Funding source: Private Investment Funded
-Location of project: South Africa | Sub-Saharan Africa
-Project type: Telecommunications and IT Activity | Business Development Activity

Managing Organization: Cape Information Technology Initiative

Managing Organization URL:
http://www.bandwidthbarn.org/



Bandwidth Barn

Contact Name: Odette Potter

Contact Email: odette.potter@citi.org.za

Contact Phone: 021 409 7000

Contact Address: (mailing): P.O.Box 7210 Roggebaai 8012 (street): 125 Buitengracht Street, Cape Town, South Africa


Activity URL:
http://www.bandwidthbarn.org


Affiliated Organizations: Cape IT Initiative UUNet


Related URLs:
http://www.uunet.co.za/
Activity Description: Bandwidth Barn is an IT-start-up incubator that provides bandwidth as well as office space, equipment, and in-house tech support to help IT SMEs succeed in South Africa. Because its services and bandwidth are shared collectively among clients, bandwidth costs are low.

Additionally, Bandwidth Barn promotes a "culture of entrepreneurship" by facilitating a networked environment, particularly with the Cape IT Initiative; clients, staff, and outside entrepreneurs in the Cape IT network can thereby share advice and expertise.

The Bandwidth Barn "Launchpad" project in 2004 succesfully helped 7 of its 10 (compared to an international average of 1 out of 10) black ICT entrepreneurs to step into the corporate world.
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