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Managing Organization:
Cape Information Technology Initiative
Managing Organization URL:
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:
Affiliated Organizations:
Cape IT Initiative
UUNet
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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. |