za.Accelerate

uLektz provides platform for professional and social associations

uLektz provides an online private community platform for professional and social associations. It helps to promote your association, grow your community, deliver value-added services to your members and manage memberships. It also helps to stay connected with your members and facilitate your members to connect with each other for social and professional networking and access members-only resources and services.

Promote Associations

Implement cloud-based networking and community platform with white-labelled mobile app under your association brand.

Members Digital Records

Manage the digital records and online profiles of all your members and their membership details.

Stay Connected

Drive collaborations & stay connected with all the members of your association through message, notifications & broadcasts.

Members Engagement

Facilitate your members to connect and engage with each other to share information, ideas, experience, etc.

Knowledge Base

Provide a digital file repository of knowledge base for your members to access the learning resources related to your association.

Learning and Development

Provide online certification courses to your members for skilling, re-skilling and cross-skilling.

Event Management

Organize and conduct various professional, social and fun related events for your members to register and attend.

Career Advancement

Facilitate your members with career advancement opportunities through networking and references.

za.ACCELERATE provides a dynamic platform of economic diversification that will support and promote small and medium enterprises in an inclusive, accessible, open, safe, and well-equipped physical and online space to break the barriers that hinder entrepreneurial growth for a digital and innovative-based economy. Mission Statement To create a community that empowers the development and growth of entrepreneurs, especially women and youth to actively participate in the economic value chain as outlined in the SMME Action Plan for a digital economy. In addition, creating more job opportunities in the private sector aligned with the NISED master plan and the NDP 2030. Goals

The goals of za.ACCELERATE are:

1. Long-term (Years 3 & beyond) • Building SMEs who thought the adoption of technologies such as AI, robotics, 3D printing and IoT will place pressure on industry sectors namely

manufacturing, construction, financial, logistics, mining, agriculture, and aerospace.

2. Medium-term (Years 2 - 3) • Promote a culture of innovation specifically in small and medium enterprises by developing, promoting and commercialising their products by graduating

companies.

3. Short-term (Years 1 - 2) • Setup high-tech innovation and entrepreneurial incubator (physical space) that provides unique opportunities to transform creative ideas into real businesses startups.