Top ICT tenders: TIA targets funding applications turnaround

Top ICT tenders: TIA targets funding applications turnaround

The Technology Innovation Agency aims to review, clean up, capture, expedite and organise funding applications data. (Image source: iStock) National Treasury’s eTenders Portal delivers another slow week for the ICT industry, as even municipalities and districts start to slow down on publishing requests. It is against this backdrop that the Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) takes…

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TIA invests R14m in livestock bio-surveillance programme

TIA invests R14m in livestock bio-surveillance programme

The Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) has invested R14m in TokaBio to strengthen South Africa’s capacity to detect and respond to livestock diseases that threaten agricultural production and commodity exports. The investment supports TokaBio’s Molecular Rapid Response and Bio-surveillance Programme, which focuses on diseases including Foot-and-Mouth Disease and Avian Influenza. TokaBio has established a 4IR-driven mobile…

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A shrinking JSE goes hunting for tech SMEs with TIA

A shrinking JSE goes hunting for tech SMEs with TIA

The Technology Innovation Agency’s Patrick Krappie The JSE and government’s Technology Innovation Agency (TIA) have launched a four-month pilot to prepare 10 small and medium-sized technology enterprises to raise capital – without giving them grants. The programme was announced at the JSE in Sandown on Wednesday. “It does not provide participating SMEs with direct grant…

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