{"id":78,"date":"2009-09-19T07:35:01","date_gmt":"2009-09-19T05:35:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/ibm-opens-african-innovation-centre-under-me-cape-town\/"},"modified":"2009-09-19T07:35:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-19T05:35:54","slug":"ibm-opens-african-innovation-centre-under-me-cape-town","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/ibm-opens-african-innovation-centre-under-me-cape-town\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM opens African Innovation Centre under me &#8211; Cape Town."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And that &#8216;under me&#8217; mean literally, I work in the same building and the IBM Innovation Centre is right below me, so yes, I technically sits right on top of it :).<\/p>\n<p>As reported <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itweb.co.za\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;view=article&amp;id=26414:ibm-opens-ct-innovation-centre&amp;catid=44:all-africa-news\">in the press<\/a>, IBM has opened their second African Innovation Centre in Cape Town, the first being in Johannesburg.&nbsp; Although I could not attend the opening, I saw how this baby grew up from nothing to now being this big piece of IBM iron standing in its glass box, otherwise known as a fishbowl.<\/p>\n<p>We already knew that Cape Town is becoming the IT hub of SA .. that place called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconcape.com\/\">Silicon Cape<\/a>. IBM has joined the party and really invested in some big computer hardware in Cape Town.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p>If any of my Cape Town readers are interested in having a look, feel free to contact me and I am sure we can arrange something.&nbsp; That also go for out of town visitors that is visiting Cape Town.<\/p>\n<p>I will get some pictures and share that with you all next week.<\/p>\n<p>Technorati Tags: <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/innovation\" rel=\"tag\">innovation<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/ibm\" rel=\"tag\">ibm<\/a>, <a class=\"performancingtags\" href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tag\/african\" rel=\"tag\">african<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>And that &#8216;under me&#8217; mean literally, I work in the same building and the IBM Innovation Centre is right below me, so yes, I technically sits right on top of it :). As reported in the press, IBM has opened their second African Innovation Centre in Cape Town, the first being in Johannesburg.&nbsp; Although I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[18],"tags":[82,121,81],"class_list":["post-78","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ibm","tag-african","tag-ibm","tag-innovation"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1SHVw-1g","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":79,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78\/revisions\/79"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mariusb.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}