Thursday, May 27, 2010

Think Better, Think Further, Think Faster


Afriversity proudly presents Cognician, a marvelous South African innovation by Barry and Patrik Kayton, winners of the Idea Track Award at the Cape Town Entrepreneurship Competition 2010.

Cognician is a software platform for deploying book content in a new, dynamic, participative form. The tool turns books, training guides, articles, research papers and even blogs into thinking wizards to use on the web, the iPhone and the iPad. Cognician mimics the workings of an agile mind by allowing you to click your way through the thinking process. Cognician bridges the gap between what you know and what an expert knows. It does this by asking you all the right questions an expert would ask you. You simply enter the subject that you want to think about and Cognician asks you thought-provoking questions that guide you to think in innovative ways about that subject. The questions set the agenda for your thinking, helping you can see patterns and make connections that you might struggle to identify on your own. Cognician gives you all the know-how you need, just in time. Go from clueless to clued up in a couple of clicks.

Afriversity and the Kayton brothers are working on launching the product later on this year so watch this space!


For more information, please visit www.cognician.com

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Congratulations to JO´M Cosmetics!!

Afriversity would like to congratulate Johannah and Solomon, owners of JO´M Cosmetics for their nomination as a finalist in the Global Entrepreneurship Competition-Hit Barcelona 2010 !

HIT-Barcelona’10 is an international summit that will bring together CEOs, presidents, general directors, directors of innovation, businesspeople, entrepreneurs and investors from around the world in Barcelona on June the 16th and the 17th, 2010. They will size up the latest international tendencies in innovation and technology, identify new commercial innovations, network with the international innovation community and formalize new businesses and investments.

We wish Johannah and Solomon the best of luck and are crossing our fingers!!

You can read more about JO´M Cosmetics at www.jomcosmetics.co.za