19 COMMON GOOD FIRST – DIGITAL STORY-TELLING PROJECT South Africa’s voiceless communities can now tell their own stories with the support of our Common Good First – Digital Story-telling Project, in partnership with Nelson Mandela University. The first digital lab was launched in Port Elizabeth; UJ’s satellite lab has been set up on the Soweto Campus. CBE staff involved in the project are Ms Adelaide Sheik, Ms Joyce Sibeko and Dr Chris Schachtebeck. The Digital Story-telling Project was conceptualised to grow the emerging South African social innovation sector, by creating a digital network – known as Common Good First – to capture and showcase social impact projects in South Africa, connecting them to each other, academics and HEIs around the world. It provides an online directory of innovative social projects for learning and teaching, as well as offering opportunities for community engagement to students in South Africa (SA) and the European Union (EU). In so doing, it also addresses the issue of the ‘digital divide’, as identified by the country’s National Development Plan 2030, by supporting the growth of e-skills among community groups. Innovative digital storytelling modules will be co-designed and taught by young people in our partner HEIs and in community projects. Modules in digital storytelling created for both student engagement with the wider community, and community projects themselves, will be rolled out in mobile labs, focusing on rural, peri-urban and urban locations. CBE − A SHIFTING BUSINESS MODEL In 2018, the CBE generated R252 million in third-stream revenue, showing a substantial shift in strategic revenue generation. Some 18% of this source of revenue was derived from research-based funding, including contract research, NRF-funding, publication subsidies, and URC grants. The remaining 82% consisted mostly of income from CEPs (55%), donations (21%), public sales (5%) and consultancies (1%). A critical success factor in delivering non-subsidised academic programmes is productive three-party agreements. These typically involve UJ, a multinational or parastatal, and a global partner. For example, the partnership between the Department of Transport and Supply Chain Management, Transnet, and the Glasgow Caledonian University is delivering a BSc in Railway Operations. Partnerships also led to consistent delivery of excellent learning products and services, as well as well-planned articulation into diploma and degree programmes. 21% 5% 1% 18% R252 MILLION IN THIRD-STREAM REVENUE GENERATION 55% CEPs DONATIONS PUBLIC SALES CONSULTANCIES RESEARCH-BASED FUNDING
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