UNESCO
Our relationship with UNESCO goes back to 2000 and the early years of the Company. We have walked a long road together to establish Virtual Reality technology as a viable educational tool in Africa and UNESCO have been very supportive of our more recent "Interactive3d Learning Object" concept.

The Independent Development Trust (IDT)
The IDT is a South African development agency that offers programme management and development advisory services for the eradication of poverty, especially among the rural poor.

We started to work with the IDT in 2009 in areas where VR can help IDT to achieve these aims, starting with the translation of a number of existing interactive3d learning object into Sepedi and isiZulu and South Sotho.

South Africa - Finland knowledge partnership on ICT (SAFIPA)
SAFIPA is a bilateral project between the governments of South Africa and Finland. It aims to support the creation of an environment which facilitates the development and deployment of ICT service applications for the benefit of South African citizens.

We are starting to work with SAFIPA in a number of areas, the first being to explore how the popular game, SimCity, can be given a local rural South African context and be used in training activities in rural municipalities.

UNESCO - IICBA (International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa)
Under Dr Fay Chung (Retd and ex-Director), IICBA became a staunch proponent of VR-based education and the potential it has to support the education profession.

W.K. Kellogg Foundation
A WK Kellogg pilot project to teach basic farming skills to small-holding farmers in Zimbabwe has sparked what promises to be the biggest interactive 3D agricultural training initiative of its kind in the world – and has thus far addressed aspects of soil and water conservation, pests, bee-keeping, farm implements and sorghum growing. Our partnership with the Kellogg Foundation (together with World Links - below) is set to revolutionise agricultural training in Africa and set a new benchmark for computer-based learning.

World Links Trust Zimbabwe
Through our on-going collaboration with the World Links Zimbabwe Trust, we have produced a range of i3dlo’s, which were translated into Shona and Ndebele by World Links and taken to rural communities in Zimbabwe (and in particular, to smallholding farmers). This work was undertaken as part of a 3-year (WK Kellogg funded) project to explore the use of VR as a means of capacity building in rural communities.

Anglo-Gold Ashanti
Because Virtual Reality can simulate real life situations without risk of injury it is an ideal tool with which to teach people safety, as well as trade skills.

Anglo-Gold Ashanti has embraced VR and we have created a number of simulations together during a relationship spanning over 6 years

The Rand Water Board
Rand Water has also become enthusiastic about the VR approach to training. We are working together on a project that develops the skills of staff members with many independent, but linked, future projects being planned. The first projects cover the testing of water chlorine (an important daily routine); the correct procedure in starting up a water pump (a potentially expensive procedure if done wrongly!) and water sampling.

ESKOM
ESKOM was an early adopter of VR technology and have visualised a range of energy technologies and systems in a relationship going back to 2001.

Open Society initiative for Southern Africa - OSISA
Our collaborative PC Literacy project created a range of "Interactive3d learning objects" - each designed to help learners to better understand how computers, PC's and data communications work. This was our first major project to use the new Interactive3d Learning Object concept to package focused learning material.

The Freedom Park Trust
With the Freedom Park Trust, we used VR to visualise the Freedom Park development in its early days, with the Garden of Remembrance and associated Contemplative Spaces, as well as the (then) proposed hilltop memorial – both of which are now a reality.

The Department of Labour / National Skills Fund
With the support of the National Skills Fund we developed a range of sophisticated lathe and milling simulations.

The sophistication and detail of these simulations has shown that even the most complex machines or systems can be visualised using this technology and approach.

The SA Department of Communications
Assisting in the design of the Howteq VR Centre and subsequent training and support for the staff of the centre.

South African Excellence Foundation
This was our first major project aimed at the development of an interactive training tool to help facilitators in the training of SMME owners in the South African Excellence Foundation's SMME Business Model. A ground breaking project of enormous scale, it extended the boundaries of VR-based training into an entirely new domain.

National Laser Centre
An early foray into the world of science, we developed a VR simulation with the NLC that helps to explain the inner-workings of lasers, targeting school children.

City of Roermond (Netherlands)
The City of Roermond (Netherlands) provided us with a great opportunity to show how VR could be used to communicate town planning concepts at the early stages of development - in this case, showing residents that still lived in “temporary” post-war housing how the community and environs was to be upgraded

Metropolitan City of Johannesburg
Our Urban Renewal project for the City of Johannesburg was a natural extension of the work done for the City of Roermond. Built to demonstrate landscape changes to the Moroka Dam and wet-lands complex in Soweto and to canvas support and buy-in for the proposed development.

This work was also showcased at the 2002 Johannesburg World Earth Summit.

GeoDelft Architects
In another land-use project, we worked with GeoDelft Architects (and Tweensense) to visualise a new proposed dyke system along part of the Maas River in Holland, a radical design that would protect local communities and infrastructure against normal, 50-year and 500-year floods.

TweenSense
Based in the Netherlands, TweenSense has also partnered with us on a number of projects such as the "Virtual Locomobile" for the Techniek Museum in Delft (Holland)

Sudan University of Science & Technology, Sudan

Université Cheikh Anta Diop de Dakar (UCAD), Senegal

University of Eduardo Mondlane

Addis Ababa University

IICBA, Addis Ababa

Nairobi University