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NETucation is a campaign to use new ways of education in the Internet age to raise the standards of living in Africa. Our vision is to bring broadband Internet access to over 50% of the African population. According to World Internet Stats, Africa only achieves 13.5% penetration among its 1,037,524,058 people. The rest of the …
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A ban on texting while driving comes into force Thursday in Pennsylvania, but remains legal in some other US states. Do you agree with a ban? Over 96% of people voting of a online poll on the Guardian UK’s website agreed texting must be banned completely when driving. My own experience is almost hypocritical as …
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In December the Postbank lost R42 million to hackers. Afterwards experts called for a new cyber policing strategy. After 20 years on the Internet I did not know we had a cyber policing strategy in place. During 1997-2003 I worked for major Internet Service Providers and three banks running their IT Security. If South Africa has …
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Every now and then students contact me while doing research on articles I’ve written on this blog or interviews published on my work. So this one started out very interesting although the eventual questions were not asking the right questions I believe. Student Request I’m studying journalism at Stellenbosch University, and have to write an …
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Recently World Wide Worx, one of our partner companies, released the definitive study on the social media landscape in South Africa. Instead of simply republishing the press release with the research findings, I also include a short email interview with the co-author, Mike Wronski and as I didn’t know sites providing youtube likes existed and …
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