South Africa Connect

Most conferences, forums, working meetings and workshops take a similar format. Everyone arrives full of vim and vigour, and the situation quickly deteriorates into a roomful of people hidden behind their laptops, or twittering in isolation. The real conversations, if there are any, tend to take place in the tea and meal breaks, or over [...]

Ory Okolloh addressed the audience at the National Broadband Forum to give her perspective on the draft framework based on her experience with e-citizenship, e-government and democratic participation. Ory is a Kenyan blogger and open-government activist who runs Mzalendo, a civic website that tracks the performance of Kenya’s Parliament and its Parliamentarians. She is also [...]

Steve Vosloo, 21st Century Learning Fellow at the Shuttleworth Foundation, painted an inspiring picture of what teaching and learning could be in the future if South African students were broadband-enabled.
Steve started off by reminding us of the hopes that South African leaders have had for South Africa even from 1996 – to be an information [...]

The second presentation from today’s National Broadband Strategy Forum painted an exciting picture for the future of content in a fully wired South Africa. Using the small platteland towns of Rosendal and Ficksburg as an analogy, media consultant Indra de Lanerolle pointed out that the founding fathers of Rosendal made the decision to do without [...]