CSIR Meraka Institute

The Digital Drum, a co-creation by United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), has been cited by the world's largest weekly news magazine, Time Magazine, as one of the top 50 inventions in the world for 2011. The Digital Drum is a compute...

"The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research has gone from strength to strength, and is still, as it was in the 1950s, the biggest and best-resourced science laboratory complex in the country," said the Minister of Science and Technology, Naledi Pandor, at the inaugural CSIR board meeting ...

The Mobile Applications Laboratory Southern Africa (mLab SA) has appointed Mr Derrick Kotze as its new CEO with effect from 15 June 2012. Kotze is currently the Developer Outreach and Marketing Manager (East & Southern Africa) at Nokia, where he spent the last two years working with local develop...

In September 2012, computer boffins from around the world joined forces to find ways in which to address the widespread unemployment problem. They were participants in the m2work Hackathon , a global programme investigating micro employment opportunities presented by new digital environments. m2w...

The Department of Water Affairs has joined forces with the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) to make the Vaal Dam the first dam in South Africa to use internet social media to disseminate information via facebook and twitter. Following information on the Vaal Dam is one of the...

Dr Math, a mobile mathematics tutoring programme developed by the CSIR Meraka Institute, received a Technology in Government in Africa (TIGA) award in Dar es Salaam on 27 May 2011. United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), in collaboration with the government of Finland, selected Dr ...

PRETORIA, GAUTENG, SOUTH AFRICA, June 27, 2011 – CSIR Meraka Institute today announced it has been awarded a grant to participate in the HP Catalyst Initiative , a global social innovation program designed to develop more effective approaches to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) ed...

The Heinrich-Hertz-Institut (HHI) of the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angew andten Forschung e. V., Germany, and the CSIR Meraka Institute have signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at strategic cooperation to develop and market technical and other solutions. The MOU was s...

The CSIR reported outstanding performance in its activities towards the fulfilment of its organisational mandate over the past year. Human capital development is critical for the development of science, engineering and technology solutions of the highest calibre to improve the lives of South Afri...

Cabinet recently renewed the contract of Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) CEO Dr Sibusiso Sibisi for a third five-year term with effect from 1 October. The renewal was approved following the CSIR board’s recommendation to the Minister of Science and Technology, Ms Naledi Pand...