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Resource Mobilisation (Eden DM) Carli Bunding -Venter

Resource Mobilisation (Eden DM) Carli Bunding -Venter. Economic Development Strategy. Call Centres (& supporting or related ICT) Berries Vegetables Timber Dairy Education Hop Usage. 1. CALL CENTRE’S & ICT. OUTENIQUA SMART CITY CORRIDOR 2020.

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Resource Mobilisation (Eden DM) Carli Bunding -Venter

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  1. Resource Mobilisation (Eden DM) CarliBunding-Venter

  2. Economic Development Strategy • Call Centres (& supporting or related ICT) • Berries • Vegetables • Timber • Dairy • Education • Hop Usage

  3. 1. CALL CENTRE’S & ICT

  4. OUTENIQUA SMART CITY CORRIDOR 2020 BUILDING A KNOWLEDGE AND INNOVATION ECONOMY ON CONNECTED AND ENABLED CITIZENS THROUGH A THEMED COLLABORATION

  5. ICT INCUBATOR • Initial funding: Provincial Gov. Western Cape • Funding declined: SEDA • Existing contacts: Bandwidth Barn, CAPE IT Initiative, SEDA NMB Incubator • Other contacts: Business Connexion, IBM, Dimension Data, (Vodacom – Knysna).

  6. Incubator – documents available • Original Concept Document • Feasibility Study (including budget) • You Tube clip outlining history, future focus areas, etc. • PDF versions of above overview & process plan for 2013 • Focus area: Private sector CSI funding to match possible DTI Incubator Grant funding

  7. HANSMOESKRAAL SCIENCE / TECHNOLOGY PARK

  8. Hanmoeskraal – documents available • Feasibility Study • Structure Plan for area (Draft) • Recent report on IASP Conference • Focus area: Funding for feasibility studies & Planning , infrastructure later?

  9. 3. VEGETABLES

  10. Vegetables… at lower level - strategy to action • ACTIONS TO DATE • NGO willing to drive & co-ordinate • Quotation request: training • Link multiple projects & persons PACA Strategy Process Vegetables as strategic growth area QUICK WIN Existing Micro Enterprise Support Existing Social project into sustainable livelihood & economic opportunity Food Gardens Spaza Shops New Businesses / Co-operatives Planning & Housing Surplus Producing Units To Market URBAN AGRI PARK (Processing facility)

  11. Vegetables – documents available • Nothing formal other than Strategy • Some work on Food Gardens • Some Permaculture local contacts with excellent ideas – e.g. localised resource centres • Focus area: Pooling of funding & up-scaling Food Gardens + commercialisation

  12. 4. TIMBER • Knysna Timber Cluster work? • Not very successful to date in George • Business Plan available for a private sector initiative which reached a dead end with commercial funding (have to request approval from individual first)

  13. OTHER AREAS TO LOOK AT

  14. Sport

  15. Other • Broadband Investment (Fibre) • Municipal Infrastructure • Including maintenance of municipal buildings • New infrastructure e.g. Crèche's • MSR (Men on the Side of the Road) • Former NGO, now taken over by municipality • Work placement for unemployed persons • Skills Development

  16. carli@george.org.za

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