Author:Funke, Nicola S; Claassen, Marius; Nienaber, SDate:Aug 2012The water sector in Southern Africa is uncertain and is changing constantly - there is biophysical uncertainty and the annual rainfall anomalies in Southern Africa between 1901 and 2009 make it difficult to plan. This uncertainty is exacerbated ...Read more
Author:Gibberd, Jeremy T; Mphutlane, LGDate:May 2007This paper describes the School Infrastructure Performance Indicator System (SIPIS) project which explores how an indicator system could be developed for school infrastructure in South Africa. It outlines the key challenges faced by the system ...Read more
Author:Gibberd, Jeremy TDate:Dec 2022With climate change, schools in hot and dry areas are increasingly experiencing water shortages. This can affect the health of students and teachers, disrupt education and in the worst case, lead to school closures. Rainwater harvesting can ...Read more
Author:Van Deventer, ADate:Nov 2008Skills shortages exist in the areas of science and technology, not only in South Africa but globally. Endeavours to address the subsequent need for more people to pursue careers in these disciplines are widespread. We need to ensure that we ...Read more
Author:Van Deventer, ADate:May 2009Skills shortages exist in the areas of Science and Technology, not only in South Africa but globally. This creates a need for more people to follow careers in Science and Technology. We need to do something to make sure that we do not loose ...Read more
Author:Van Deventer, ADate:Apr 2007TekkiTots is part of The Young Engineers of South Africa (YESA) research area within the ICT in Education, Youth and Gender research group at The Meraka Institute (CSIR). The aim of YESA is to increase the pipeline for the generation of more ...Read more
Author:Van Wyk, Llewellyn V; Kistan, Kenny FDate:Oct 2007The CSIR was approached by the Department of Science and Technology (DST) to make recommendations with regard to alternative technologies that would contribute to achieving sustainable development imperatives in a subsidised housing project ...Read more
Author:Snyman-Van der Walt, LuanitaDate:Oct 2017This presentation discusses the scientific assessment of shale gas development in South Africa by Luanita Snyman Van der Walt at the 6th CSIR Conference: Ideas that work for industrial development, 5-6 October 2017, CSIR International Convention ...Read more
Author:Herselman, Martha E; Foko, Thato E; Nungu, A; Ng'amba, P; Mgeni, MDate:Nov 2015The purpose of this paper is to provide an overview of the specific lessons that were learnt when Tanzanian and South African Living Labs (LL) collaborated to support one another. It was a scientific collaboration which focussed on Living ...Read more
Author:Delport, JPDate:01 Sep 2010Atmospheric turbulence is a naturally occurring phenomenon that can severely degrade the quality of long-range surveillance video footage. Major effects include image blurring, image warping and temporal wavering of objects in the scene. ...Read more
Author:Thulare, Tumiso; Maremi, Keneilwe J; Herselman, Martha EDate:Dec 2023South Africa and the world had been adversely affected by the Coronavirus pandemic. It became nearly impossible to host face-to-face interviews for data collection as meeting in person increased the risk of infections. It was difficult to ...Read more
Author:Iyawa, GE; Herselman, Martha E; Botha, AdèleDate:May 2017Digital health innovation ecosystems describe the need to incorporate the components of digital health, innovation and digital ecosystems in administering healthcare services. Reviewing the evidence of digital health, innovation and digital ...Read more
Author:Van Schalkwyk, A; Grobbelaar, S; Herselman, Martha EDate:Sep 2020Method: Five stages of conducting a scoping review are implemented: 1) identifying the research questions 2) identifying the relevant studies 3) study selection 4) data charting and 5) collecting, summarising, and reporting the results. ...Read more
Author:Thulare, Tumiso; Herselman, Martha E; Botha, AdèleDate:Aug 2020Poor data integrity hinders health information exchange, research, and reporting. Lack of standardized documentation guidelines will lead to further data integrity issues due to inaccurate, inconsistent, or incomplete information. The lack ...Read more
Author:Motheeram, Preia; Botha, Adèle; Herselman, Martha EDate:Nov 2016A scoping review was conducted towards supporting the conceptualization of a Digital Open Badge Ecosystem for South Africa. The scoping review intends to address the conceptualization of a digital Open Badges ecosystem for South Africa by: ...Read more
Author:Adetunji, RO; Strydom, M; Herselman, Martha E; Botha, AdèleDate:Sep 2021This systematic scoping review proposed examining issues connected to TB medication non-adherence among TB patients over a long time in South Africa. Wide electronic databases and online digital libraries were searched, including medical ...Read more
Author:Maremi, Keneilwe J; Herselman, Martha E; Botha, AdèleDate:Mar 2020The main purpose and focus of this paper is to determine the aspects and capabilities of the South African School Administration and Management System (SA-SAMS). This is necessary to assist and inform schools on how this system can support ...Read more
Author:Ntuli, Princess N; Helgenberger, S; Jacobs, DDate:Nov 2017The purpose of the study is to analyse social and economic development impacts of renewable energy deployment in South Africa. Renewable energy technology is new in South Africa and presents opportunities for the country to spread the benefits ...Read more
Author:Goncalves, DP; Britz, JDate:Jul 2009In this paper, the authors focus on the human dimension of Systems Engineering by addressing the need for the development of systems engineering potential in candidate engineers. Specifically, the authors propose a research design for a systems ...Read more
Author:Gonçalves, D; Britz, JDate:01 Sep 2010Systems engineering is one of the tools with which the CSIR can make an impact. However, systems engineering skills are in short supply. In order to address the shortage of systems engineering (SE) skills in South Africa over the long term, ...Read more