South Africa Connect

In the final session of the National Broadband Strategy Forum, facilitator Steve Song invited attendees to comment, add to and generally edit the draft framework which had informed most of the day’s proceedings. “Think of it as policy haiku,” he said, “the best possible scenario for today is that a better version of the framework [...]

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 [...]