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Web Applications

Teaching about the web

In our two tutorials, the SSK club discovered the basics of creating a file that contains source code for a webpage – including HTML, CSS and JavaScript (in the same file). We covered what HTML tags are, and why we need to use them. At the end of the day we had a webpage that included a heading, a subheading, a description and photos.

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Portals and Gateways

New SARVA portal

The South African Risk and Vulnerability Atlas (SARVA) is in its third phase of development and a new portal was released in April 2020.

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Message from the MD

Alas! Or Hurray?

SAEON is proud to have made a unique and significant contribution to South Africa’s management of the COVID-19 state of disaster. Claire Davis-Reddy speedily responded to the national disaster announcement by mapping no fewer than 52 COVID-19 preparedness indicators and turning those into an online resource that serves to provide data, tools, visualisations and analytics for planning purposes.

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Portals and Gateways

Integrating data and decision-support

The NCCIS is part of the national effort to track South Africa’s overall transition to a low-carbon and climate-resilient economy by offering a series of decision-support tools to inform policy and decision-making.

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People

Inspiring Fifty

Keneilwe, a member of our Data Science Team, was chosen as one of South Africa’s Inspiring Fifty for 2019.

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