Aurecon is a new, innovative, global group created by the recent coming together of 3 world-class companies - Africon, Connel Wagner and Ninham Shand.  They focus on providing professional technical services across a broad spectrum of proficiencies from engineering to information technology. Aurecon is developing a whole suite of new Incident Management/Emergency Response Software for clients in areas such as Emergency Services, Disaster...

The Tourist Problem See it at www.africantourismportal.com Tourism is, by its very nature, the act of deliberately taking oneself to somewhere foreign and experiencing the new, the different and the unknown.  That said, most tourists are not interested in stumbling blindly – they want to impose some sort of structure on their journey before they begin.  At the least, they book hotels and accommodation.  Many choose a few particular...

Since April ‘09, Christian and I have been based full time at Aurecon. It is about time for the long overdue update.  Here it is! In a nutshell, the past few months can be summed up as 2 kick ass applications down and more to come! Aurecon saw the need to develop a whole suite of new Incident Management Software for existing clients in areas such as Emergency Services, Disaster Management and Policing. Once they decided that immersive,...

New Media Labs has received signoff of development and testing of custom Niche Social Network for a leading international private bank. The development was completed in four, three week SCRUM sprints with a development team of four. Given the scale of this project, and the technical complexity of tieing into the banking backend this was an amazing achievement. Microsoft is now working in collaboration with New Media Labs to generate a case...

New Media Labs in collaboration with Global Vision and Stonewall+ won the bid to redevelop the Nedgroup Investments Content Management System. The creative pitch from Stonewall+ was excellent, this coupled with our technology pitch made the decision to go Stonewall+/NML/GV a no brainer. NML will be doing the dev, GV will be providing Business Analysis, Project Management and Testing services. Our base layer CMS was used for the development....

NML have completed development of The Trust portal of giving. NML built the backend technology for the site. The idea is that the portal gives the charities a means to illustrate the good work they are doing. It also gives the donor a single trustable portal to decide which charities to apportion the money to. Complex reports are generated out of the system to illustrate donation and spend apportionment. The trustees are Alan Knott-Graig...