Cisco recently announced a R215-million investment in the Cisco Innovation Hub Technology Centre (CIHTC). The centre, which will be become the home of ICT initiatives including an InnovationLab, a global Talent Acquisition Programme, the Cisco Netversity, an Entrepreneur Institute and a Software Development Programme, is expected to collectively drive a R1-billion gross domestic product effect over an initial five year period. The 3000 m2 CIHT centre will be based at the Innovation Hub in Pretoria. According to Sipho Zikode, acting deputy director general; enterprise and industry development division of the Department of Trade and Industry, the department supports these commendable initiatives, and looks forward to the positive contributions that they will make to South African industry, the ICT sector and the people of South Africa at large.
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