B Live Media

B Live Media offers Livestreaming as a Service (LaaS). Bridgetti Lim Banda is a talkshow host and Executive Livestream Producer who helps business owners host live events, e.g. town halls, talk shows, brand awareness campaigns, fireside chats etc. History of Academic CIO Forum In 2008, the academic CIO Forum was launched with academics from the four universities in the Western Cape, the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT), the University of the Western Cape (UWC), the University of Cape Town (UCT) and Stellenbosch University. In this first year, the focus was on establishing a network of people to help bridge the gap between academia and commercial industry. We focused on a Cafe Conversation style Monthly Breakfast Forum and Social Media. We had over 500 participants and a network within academia, government and the broader CIO community. In the first 6 months the focus of our conversations was on the skills gap and on internships and graduate programs, helping to both understand and identity gaps in academic and commercial perspectives. In 2009, we established the Centre for CIO Research Africa (CenCRA) spearheaded by the Cape Peninsula University of Technology (CPUT) and a Master Information Officer (MIO) program to establish a qualification for CIOs and aspiring CIOs. This culminated in the 1st CIO Conference on CIO Research recently held on the 22nd and 23rd of October of which top CIOs and academics from the 4 universities presented along with researchers from CenCRA and the MIO program around the theme of “Creating Agility: the CIO Conundrum”. In 2010, we extended the forum from talk or conversations to action. We want to focus on meaningful social programs under a common brand or banner of “Citizen1”. This involves a wide area of activity from developing programs to assist citizen engagement and bridge the gaps in IT. Included in this, was the concept of CIO mentorship programmes and the CIO Academy.