CSIR Meraka Institute

The Meraka Institute of South Africas CSIR (Council for Scientific and Industrial Research) has taken the lead in organising the one-day Euro-Africa Cooperation Forum on ICT Research in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. This is in collaboration with partners in the Seventh Framework Programme (FP7) EuroAfri...

A training course developed by the CSIR Meraka Institute in the design and implementation of wireless mesh networks will be presented at the University of Zululand during the first quarter of 2010. Beneficiaries of this course will be the 2010 intake of learners for wireless mesh networks trainin...

The popular science magazine Quest is launching an interactive website to make science more accessible and exciting for learners. It will be demonstrated using groundbreaking technology developed at the CSIR Meraka Institute. The website, QuestInteractive, will be launched by the publisher of the...

" Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world," Nelson Mandela. Scientists and researchers from the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) will support Mandela Day on 18 July 2010 by donating their time to empower South African students through educa...

Every second year since 2006, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) dedicates two days to its 'Science real and relevant' conference to share research progress, breakthroughs and impact in an open forum. In 2010, the conference will be shaped around the research fields in whic...

A South African consortium comprising the Meraka Institute of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), The Innovation Hub, Innovation Lab and Ungana-Afrika, has been selected to host the Southern African laboratory of the African Regional Mobile Application Laboratory. This was ...

Pretoria, Gauteng, South Africa, October 8, 2010 - CSIR Meraka Institute today announced it has received a grant to participate in HP's Catalyst Initiative, a global social innovation program designed to develop more effective approaches to science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) educati...

With South Africa now in the grip of veld fires in dry parts where the summer rains have not yet brought relief, the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has announced that its Advanced Fire Information System (AFIS) has been upgraded. AFIS is a satellite-based fire information t...

The CSIR Meraka Institute selected a Neotel/Broadband Infraco partnership to install a 10 Gigabit per second network to the South African Large Telescope (SALT) and Square Kilometre Array (SKA) sites in the Northern Cape. The selection is the outcome of a tender process that was done in consultat...

The Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) has announced that it has exceeded most of its targets and has achieved a solid overall performance for its 2009/10 financial year. Commenting on its financial targets, CSIR President and CEO, Dr Sibusiso Sibisi, says that the CSIR has del...