Established in Cape Town in 2008, Rainbow IT and Communications focuses on providing unique and a high profile business information and communication to our communities and schools to meet the rapidly changing technologies and complexities of new technologies.

For SMEs who are dissatisfied with complexities of VOIP and convergence to deploy and adapt to new technology in their business. Our strategic research methodologies, which we have refined from collective source of experience and expertise ensures SMEs across a wide spectrum, do have the highest quality of intelligence and solution to meet these complex requirements. Unlike other ICT companies,“We have solutions to build with an immediate benefit and we walk you along the path of convergence, generally over a period of one or two years” 

We made it to VeloCITI

We made it through with other exciting 14 IT Companies. VeloCITI, which has been running for three years, aims to grow young ICT entrepreneurs and companies who have great business ideas, but may lack the experience or support to grow the business from an idea into a profit making company. CITI, Cape Venture Partners, PeerPower and the Western Cape Provincial Government are partners of the VeloCITI project.

There is a great deal of variance in ICT policies for education among the African countries surveyed. South Africa clearly is unique in terms of being able to move its ICT agenda forward. Several of the countries of North Africa that have both resources and high bandwidth connectivity with Europe have also been able to make excellent progress implementing their ICT plans. Those countries that are steadily moving to sustainable economies (Mauritius, Ghana, and Botswana, for example) constitute another group making remarkable progress. Perhaps the largest group is made up of those countries that are in transition from a sustained period of conflict and economic instability and are looking to ICT applications to help them meet myriad challenges—particularly the development of their human resource capacity. They are among the neediest in terms of assistance.

And, unfortunately, there remains a group of countries that are still plagued with political instability and internal conflicts that make progress on the ICT for education agenda impossible.

The ICT in education developments and initiatives chronicled in the country reports are due to many factors, including the sustained efforts of a variety of organisations over the years. But it is also evident that the shift from “projects to policies,” and the more systematic development that implies, would not be possible without the growing commitment to ICT in education on the part of government leaders across the continent. The following comments are illustrative:

Ms Elizabeth Ohene, Ghana’s Minister of State for Education and Sports at the opening of the first NEPAD e-school in Ghana: “The computer should no longer be seen as a glorified typewriter, but as a tutor, an organiser, a presentation agent, a search agent, a data processor, a remedial and e-learning interactive agent.”

Prime Minister Meles Zenawi of Ethiopia speaking to an ICT conference in Addis Ababa in 2005: