Matthew Buckland Managing Director Creative Spark Interactive capetown designing a better city IMG SRC: Flickr
Cape Town Design Capital Silicon Cape
Feb 07, 2015
Cape Town-- designing a better city. how technology and the silicon cape adds to one of the most beautiful cities in the world
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Matthew BucklandManaging Director
Creative Spark Interactive
capetown designing a better city
IMG SRC: Flickr
making cape town a continental technology hub like silicon valley
attract talent. encourage, support & inspire entrepreneurial ventures
why cape town? infrastructure, compact, existing internet
companies
beautiful.
how the internet is changing the world
entrepreneurial activity like we have never seen before as a result of low barriers to entry on the internet
age of entrepreneur
increased mobility: always connected, can work anywhere. that’s why geeks choose Silicon Valley, that’s why they choose the “Silicon Cape”
we are mobile
technology & design are critical partners. we are seeing a design revolution in technology. an entire industry created called “usability”. and it’s no co-incidence that the world’s biggest company has the most functional, beautiful products.
a design revolution
Browser: Web in your browserVirtual: Web in virtual worldsAugmented: Web “in the city”
evolving web
the web as part of Cape
Town’s streets
Cape Town’s design is as much virtual as it is real.
thank you!www.creativespark.co.za
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