As South Africa live upon the vision 2030 of the Natioal Development Plan, it's important to grow the Digital Skills capacity. The country must assess and highlight efforts on the ground and empower those driving change for a better digital future.
The role of Geekulcha in this journey is to create and enable platforms for Innovation and Creativity. In this regard, the organization also seek to showcase the shifts and health of the South Africa Geek Culture.
During the Youth Month, Geekulcha name and honor Top 15 Young Geeks in South Africa. These are the minds marking their stamp and playing a greater role in the Digital Revolution. These are Geeks who have been identified as being a role player in the transformation.
One gets nominated and selected to be on the list based on the work they had been doing and contributing the SA tech ecosystem.
Why we created the #Top15YoungGeeks initiative.
A check on the health of the South Africa Geek Culture, work being done, shortfalls and future forecast.
Help ProfileHighlighting the needs of local Geeks and Highlighting the needs for support to nurture young talent.
Support GeeksA quest to help young school learners see what is possible and build up same energy and stamina on them.
Explore FutureKnow of a very cool who has been doing the most in the previous year? Nominate them for the Geekulcha Top 15 Young Geeks in South Africa for the year 2021.
01 Jan 2020
The public may start nominating their faves for the Top 15 Young Geeks edition for 2020.
31 Mar 2020
After a period of nominating faves, nominations closes.
09 Apr 2020
The nominations list gets narrowed down to 25 geeks who will then need to motivate their stance.
01 May 2020
A panel of judges will go through the 25 shortlisted geeks to find the Top 15 Young Geeks.
01 Jun 2020
To mark youth month, Geekulcha will announce the Top 15 Young Geeks for 2020.