Tag: South Africa

By: Zeki Salah, Communications Associate A global grassroots robotics initiative, One Team Two Continents, brought thirteen South African students to Chicago in March to participate in a FIRST robotics competition. The project was a joint collaboration between 2019 Chicago Peace Fellow Jackie Moore and 2018 Global Fellow Dieudonne Anumbosi Allo. Funding from the Chicago Peace… Continue reading Teaching the Importance of Pluralism and Social Inclusion through Robotics

By Gresë Sermaxhaj, Communications Associate To mark this year’s International Women’s Day, the UN has chosen the theme of Technology and Innovation for Gender Equality – an area familiar to Dieudonne Allo (Global Fellow from South Africa) who is leading the Ibali Lam program through his organization Global Leading Light Initiatives. Ibali Lam is an… Continue reading How Ibali Lam is Empowering Women Entrepreneurs in South Africa

By Reverend Berry Behr, 2021 Global Fellow, South Africa A collaboration between two DePaul University students and the Cape Town Interfaith Initiative (CTII) has yielded a rare treasure – funding for the recording of an important personal account from an interfaith stalwart as part of our efforts to capture an oral history of the interfaith… Continue reading Chicago and Cape Town Collaboration helps Capture History

featuring Dieudonne Allo and Jacquelyn Moore Two Goldin Fellows from South Africa and the USA (Dieudonne Allo and Jacquelyn Moore) are joining forces to convene young people with an interest in STEM and Robotics from Chicago (USA) and Port Alfred (South Africa) to collaborate as a unified team to compete in the FIRST® Innovation Challenge presented by Qualcomm.… Continue reading United by STEM: One Team, Two Continents

By Dieudonne Allo, Goldin Global Fellow, South Africa Dear All, Our Acceleration Summit was a remarkable success. I am writing to share a few highlights and pictures of the event. The head of CSI of IDC (our current donor) IDC’s portfolio manager, IDC’s Mthatha-based staff, representatives of the local municipality, Small Enterprise Development Agency (Seda),… Continue reading South African Acceleration Summit Update

The Goldin Institute was thrilled to welcome GATHER alumnus Dieudonne Allo from South Africa to our hometown in Chicago September 29-October 1, a visit that fortuitously coincided with a visit from Ceasar McDowell, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology who has been a senior advisor to the GATHER program since it was first conceived.… Continue reading GATHER Alumnus Previews Chicago to Mthatha Robotics Collaboration

Dear All, It has been a while since I provided updates about my grassroots project as a GATHER Fellow and I thought with so much happening at the Global Leading Light Initiative (GLLI), it would be nice to share some of the news. I must warn you that this will be an unusually long missive… Continue reading Leading Lights Shine in South Africa