SAFIPA - Improving Municipal Service Delivery through Interactive 3D training
Local government in South Africa is facing significant service delivery challenges. While this is underpinned by many root causes, the SA Government has placed a priority on addressing the situation. In this project, we will be looking at the issue from two angles:

1. Municipal management decision-making: building on our recent exploratory work on SimCity with SAFIPA, to develop a first version of a localised version of SimCity that can be used in training interventions with senior municipal administrative and political decision-makers. The project includes the replacement of typical American buildings with those found in typical SA rural towns, adjusting some of the game variables and piloting the outcomes within a local municipal environment.
   
   
2. Resource management: poor maintenance has led to a deteriorating infrastructure and a major waste of scarce resources. In this project, we will be creating a set of i3dlo’s that show how to replace faulty washers and seals in domestic taps and cisterns. These will by piloted by our project partner, Daniel Lentle, who will work with selected water authorities / municipalities and with their local community intervention initiatives.

SANERI – Robben Island Greening programme (2010)
Following the signing of a MoA with SANERI (South African National Energy Research Institute) earlier in 2010, this first joint project with SANERI and the Robben Island Museum is an initiative to “investigate, develop and implement an energy efficiency and renewable energy programme on Robben Island.

The Naledi3d Factory’s component is to create one or more virtual environments to represent the island, key buildings and to explain the energy-efficient and renewable energy technologies that have been identified for the island. These virtual environments will be subsequently used to show the planned energy technologies to visitors and other stakeholders.