Ravi Naidoo

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Ravi Naidoo
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Ravi Naidoo (born 12 August 1964) is the founder of Interactive Africa and Design Indaba, an annual three day design conference [1] hosted in Cape Town, South Africa, as well as a suite of events such as Design Commons and antenna. Naidoo is also a co-founder of the Cape Innovation and Tech Initiative (CiTi) and Rain, Africa's first 5G network.

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Ravi Naidoo is the recipient of the 2015 Sir Misha Black Medal for innovation in design education. [2] The founder of Interactive Africa, [3] a Cape Town-based media and project management company responsible for the First African in Space [4] mission with Mark Shuttleworth in 2002, and the marketing bid to host the 2010 Fifa World Cup. [5]

In 2008, Naidoo launched a social impact design project through Design Indaba called the 10x10 Housing Project. [6] The project created 10 low-cost houses in Freedom Park in the Cape Flats. The buildings were made using sustainable materials such as sandbags. [7]

Naidoo has a B.Sc. (Hons) degree in Physiology from the University of Cape Town and completed an MBA at the UCT GSB in 1994. [8]

Naidoo is a recognised thought leader and speaker in the field of creativity and design. [9] He sits on the jury of the INDEX Design Awards [10] in Copenhagen. In Amsterdam, he sits on the advisory board of THNK, [1] and is the Chairman of the 2017 IXDA Awards [11]

In 2017 Ravi commissioned the Arch for Arch project, a tribute to Archbishop Desmond Tutu that was constructed in the City of Cape Town. [12] Naidoo, in the same year, cofounded Design Commons with World Design Weeks founder Kari Korkman. Design Commons is known as a deconstructed design conference. [13] In 2016, Naidoo co-founded Rain, a South African data network, with Michael Jordaan and Paul Harris. [14] Naidoo was awarded the Design Prize in 2017, a design prize dedicated to design culture. [15]

In 2019, Ravi served as the Chair of the annual YPO Edge Conference. [16]

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