RE-ADVERTISEMENT REPOSITORY (PORTAL) BID NO: MKI-DDKR07-2019 CLOSING DATE: 03 FEBRUARY 2020, 16:30 The Moses Kotane Institute (MKI) is an entity of the KwaZulu-Natal Provincial Government through the Department of Economic Development, Tourism and Environmental Affairs (EDTEA). Its mandate is to provide an internationally recognised quality research driving the economic development and innovation in the province. It does this by providing timely and accurate research to support the attainment of radically transformed, inclusive and sustainable economic growth for the province in partnerships with public and private sector. It is also funded mainly by EDTEA and other stakeholders. MKI invites suitable service providers to submit proposals for the Knowledge Repository, a system that will systematically capture, organise and store research outputs and knowledge generated by the Moses Kotane Institute, the Department of Economic Development, Tourism and all its entities.TORs must be obtained from our website http://www.moseskotaneinstitute.com, proposals and quotations emailed to tenders@moseskotane.com. Proposals received after the closing date of 19 December 2019, 11:00 will NOT be considered. MKI subscribes to the Preferential Procurement Policy Framework Act, 2000, (Act No.5 of 2000). There will be a three-stage evaluation. The first stage is administrative compliance, the second is the technical evaluation and the final stage is the price and BEE evaluation. MKI reserves the right not to appoint.

“Technological Advancements for Inclusive Economic Growth in KZN” 20 March2020 Background The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) technologies continue to be disruptors in our everyday lives and more so in business operations where technological advancements are changing the way businesses has always been run. Technologies such as artificial intelligence and robotics may destroy or disrupt many jobs in the services sector and in labor-intensive industries (Balliester & Elsheikhi, 2018). The feared job losses have materialized in some industries. Evidence shows that there is a dire need for countries to be geared for a rapidly changing environment or risk stagnating or falling behind their peers. In theory, new technological paradigms should allow countries like South Africa to leapfrog some of the older established economies, in practice it would take an immense effort of public sector coordination, education and private sector mobilisation to get the enabling factors in place. By all analyses South Africa is in the unenviable position of having low technological capability, inadequate and stagnating digital readiness and economic complexity that is falling. It is against this backdrop that the Moses Kotane Institute is hosting the 2020 Summit under the theme “Disrupted industries and Models for Job Creation Summit: “Technological Advancements for Economic Growth in KwaZulu Natal”.