About Us

"Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change
the world. Indeed it is the only thing that ever has."
Margaret Mead, social anthropologist

CITI is an independent, not-for-profit, development agency supporting the growth of the IT cluster of businesses in the Western Cape. Operating on a business-like basis, the organisation is answerable to its paid up members and IT businesses and stakeholders.

CITI is creating the Western Cape as a global Information Technology hub and the IT gateway to Africa. In order to achieve this aim we focus on:

IT Cluster Marketing and Networking

IT Business Development

IT Skills Development

Research and IT Policy

CITI sits at the junction of business, education and government. It is a networking organisation which unleashes the power of entrepreneurship, community and capital by bringing people and businesses together.

We are committed to being transparent, responsive to our members and supporters, cooperative with other agencies, and independent in our operation.

The speech bubbles of the CITI logo represent our belief in the power of cooperation and conversation, through which we aim to achieve our mission of jobs and prosperity through information technology.

The organisation is registered in South Africa as a Section 21 company (Association incorporated not for gain, with no shareholders.)

History
CITI was born in June 1998 when a group of business people - seeing the potential to seize the advantages of the Western Cape and enhance the existing IT cluster - convened a gathering under the banner of a Cluster Muster. At that meeting a strong consensus for action emerged and the foundations of the organisation were laid.

The election of a board and the appointment of an employed executive team followed, ensuring the organisations sustainability and effectivenes.

The day to day operations of CITI are managed by:

Masedi Molosiwa
Masedi Molosiwa is the Executive Director of the Initiative. Masedi has been involved with CITI for more than 2 years, and has been Chairman of the Stakeholders Forum for over a year.

Sarina joined the CITI team at the beginning of February 2004 as our Marketing Manager. She completed a BA Communications and Psychology degree from UNISA as well as a higher diploma in integrated marketing communications from AAA School of Advertising. She formed her own event management and below-the-line marketing consultation company called ‘Lifestyle Events’ in 2000 and spent a year at Grey Worldwide working on the Dunhill and Lucky Strike accounts before joining CITI.

Sibongile Madikane has been the voice of CITI since she joined the team in March 2000 as Receptionist. She is now our Office Administrator.

Esme joined CITI in February 2001 and is responsible for keeping CITI's books up to date and for the day to day running of the Bandwidth Barn.

Steven received a diploma in journalism in 1992 and worked for Scipio / M-Net's 'New Directions' initiative. He was Assistant Director of the award winning short film 'Chicken Biznis'. He has been designing websites for the last 5 years and has recently become actively involved in IT education.

Odette Potter has joined the team as the new Bandwidth Barn General Manager. She has a wealth of experience in the service industry having been a Club Financial Manager at Virgin Active for the last six years.

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