Visual Acuity (UK)
Acuity is well positioned as a leading consultancy, offering long-term, independent and unbiased strategic, consulting, design guidance and operational advice to clients in all areas of new-media, visualization & ICT technology.
Blair Parkin, as CEO of Visual-Acuity has become a good friend and supporter of Naledi3d over the years.
In-between he has also worked many other projects, including Freedom Park in Pretoria, Hellenic World in Athens, Haydn Planetarium (New York) and the Califaorinia Academy of Science in Golden Gate Park – to name but a few…
www.visual-acuity.com

 

Thinc Design (USA)
A New York based exhibit, design and storytelling consultants who are currently working on the World Trade Centre Memorial Museum and also partnering with Visual Acuity on the Freedom Park project in South Africa.
www.thincdesign.com

 

Prof. Bob Stone Human Interface Technologies Team (University of Birmingham, UK)
…and in particular it’s Director, Professor Bob Stone (Chair of Interactive Multimedia Systems) at the University.  Bob has a background in psychology and ergonomics, spent time at British Aerospace and the UK’s National Advanced Robotics Research Centre before becoming a Director for one of Europe’s original Virtual Reality companies.

In 1996, he became an Academician of the Russian International Higher Education Academy of Sciences (Moscow) and an Honorary Cossack (!) in 2003. Bob is also a member of a number of NATO specialist groups concerned with human factors, unmanned systems, VR and serious applications of gaming technologies and most recently, the recently-established UK Serious Games Evaluation Unit. A very knowledgeable and interesting fella, and one of the leading lights in the European VR field. 

One of the more interesting VR people that we know, with a fascinating background and an inspiration to us all.

 

Kentucky Community and Technical College System (USA)
As part of its commitment to developing Kentucky’s workforce, KCTCS have launched the KCTCS Interactive Digital Center – providing cutting edge visualization technologies to support the delivery of high quality simulation based training to local industry.
Located in the middle of the coal mining belt, Jamie and team have helped many local companies to shorten learning cycles and reduce training costs. www.kctcs.edu

Kognitiv (UK)
Kognitiv, and it’s erudite leader, Ken Swain started out in April 2002 as Design Academy in Manchester, specialising in 3D design and multimedia for government, industry and education. Ken rebranded his company in January 2009 as Kognitiv Limited, based in Sheffield, to better serve his new markets and has now evolved into a creative, visual innovation company built around advanced visualisation. He also works on real-time communications, which has helped Kognitiv to achieve one of the most effective methods of knowledge transfer in the marketplace.
www.kognitiv.com

 

Center of Visualization, Göteborg (Sweden)
The Center of Visualization strives to stimulate growth in the field of digital visualization, helping to spread
visualization technology into new and existing industry segments in Göteborg. The centre recently partnered with the Media Development Authority in Singapore, which we plan to extend to South Africa soon.
www.center-of-visualization.org

 

Blue Apple
Cedric Mamabolo is a young entrepreneur and he started Blue Apple Branding in 2006 as a design and branding company offering their services to companies in the retail, corporate and government sectors. 
Cedric has built a small, but very creative and capable design team and has also become a great friend. On more than one occasion, he has gone the extra mile to help and support our efforts at the Naledi3d Factory. 
http://www.blueapplebranding.com/

 

Human Systems Engineering
HSE and Jacques Hugo in particular specialise in design processes to optimise the fit between people and the machines they use –matching the tasks required to the capabilities of users and operators.  Jacques “machines” range from factory machines to nuclear power plants – his current project! www.humansystemsengineering.co.za

 

Doncaster Knowledge Exchange (UK)
The DKE was established as an EU Centre of Excellence in Doncaster, South Yorkshire, UK. It provides local businesses with a bespoke service enabling them to utilise leading edge 3D and revolutionary 4D technologies in all areas of their operation from product development to sales and marketing.
www.dk-exchange.com/

 

Hai Vo (3D solutions, Kiev, Ukraine)
We’ve known Hai for over ten years and know him as one of those determined entrepreneurs that doesn’t give up and simply climbs around hurdles. Hailing from Vietnam (he rode the boats with his parents), Hai grew up in the Netherlands but is now based in Kiev. 3DSolutions focuses on the use of 3D in real estate marketing and the use of innovative 3D to communicate and sell more effectively. He has a deep understanding of new social media and helps his clients to take advantage of these new worlds through his new company - componence.com. Oh - and he takes orders online for tailored suits, shipped from Vietnam to order…
http://www.3dsolutions.biz/

Innovation Hub - Pretoria
Our landlords!
But they do more…
The Innovation Hub has created a unique space for high-tech entrepreneurs, world-class businesses, academics and researchers to meet, network and if we are lucky, prosper. The Hub strives to provide a space to contribute to the growth and globalisation of technology-rich enterprises and to promote innovation and enhance competitiveness for knowledge-based businesses.
Watch this space…
www.theinnovationhub.com

 

World Links Zimbabwe
We are proud to have worked with and be associated with World Links Zimbabwe for many years on agricultural projects, and have got to know them – and their Director, Eli Gudza very well…  WLZ works with schools, educational institutions and communities to engage learners in the appropriate use of technology in learning and development. They especially focus on under resourced schools and communities and are active in all 10 provinces, having established 45 school and community based telecentres that are used by students, teachers as well as the community itself.

The WLZ team deserve special mention for their perseverance in what is essentially a truly difficult environment.
http://www.worldlinks.org.zw/

 

Dr Fay Chung
Fay has been a great supporter and friend of Naledi3d over the years.

She grew up in Zimbabwe and trained as an educator at the University of Zimbabwe and joined the Zimbabwe liberation struggle in 1973 but ended up in forced exile in Tanzania and Mozambique. Fay was appointed Minister of Education by Mugabe in 1988, where she developed and implemented a nationwide primary and secondary education program. In 1980, 5% of the black population in Zimbabwe had access to basic education; by 1993, Zimbabwe had achieved a 95% primary education rate.

She resigned after disagreeing with the government in 1993 and went on to establish the Education Cluster at UNICEF before returning to Africa in 1998, where she established UNESCO’s International Institute for Capacity Building in Africa (IICBA) in Ethiopia.

Fay retired to Zimbabwe in 2003 but has continued to be outspoken on Zimbabwean politics, has stood for parliament, and was a founder of FAWE (Forum for African Women Educationalists) as well as the Chairperson of the board of Trustees of the Women’s University in Africa which she helped co-found in 2003.