CultureShift is the creative entrepreneurship program initiated by the British Council in collaboration with the Hub Johannesburg. CultureShift SA is a 6 months creative entrepreneurship program designed to provide creative solutions in the creative economy. The program took place at The Hub Johannesburg from the 23rd – 25th of March 2012, with 47 participants from the creative, commercial and digital sectors.
The first day (23rd March) kicked off with the introduction activity of participants, speakers, inception of ideas and choosing the top 6 ideas which developed into businesses. The second day (24th March) took off with high level of energy from CultureShifters with only one day left to consolidate the ideas and grow them to feasible business plans while receiving continued guidance from mentors. On the last day (25th March) the reality dawned as the clock was ticking towards pitching of business plans to investors and announcing the winners.
Mr. Nhlanhla Sibiya (Cometsa Development Enterprises: Managing Director) was a participant and a member of “Griocity”, the team that won the first price of R35 000 to pilot the business plan plus six months Hub membership . The idea of Griocity is to preserve history and information of cultural buildings, statues, objects and museums from the City of Johannesburg using QR Codes and cell phones as a technological device to capture information.
Cometsa congratulates Nhlanhla and his team mates for the work well done. We are looking forward to see their business ideas being successfully implemented.
Here is the link to the Mail and Guardian article: http://mg.co.za/article/2012-03-26-can-creativity-fix-south-africa
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