Comment: You may think that the Americans are overreacting here. I tend to think these problems are very real, and teenagers just do not discuss them with parents or teachers for fear of embarrassment. MXit is a very good platform to start offering peer counselling. And hopefully in the near future, between ourselves, CSIR and…
BRYANSTON “ Only 12% of South Africans have used the Internet to find love. This is compared to 29% of the French and 21% of Filipinos interviewed in a global survey about dating perceptions, use of the Internet to find a romantic partner and the level of success that they have had. Synovate surveyed 4…
Popular online social network MySpace will begin sending online alerts to users in certain US regions to help find missing children, as part of an expansion of plans to expand safeguards for users. MySpace struck a partnership with the National Centre for Missing & Exploited Children to enable MySpace Amber alerts, a programme between the…
As you may have written down in your diary that a major event to attend in November was the 2006 MyADSL Broadband Conference held at Vodaworld, Midrand, South Africa. That was one of the many ICT-related forums focusing directly on widening digital access to communities and the information poor. In this article, I am going…
The idea behind Broadband is mainly to open doors for inclusive access, where anyone can play on a fair and non-discriminatory platform, while promoting and ensuring fair trade. Open Access Networks is one of the few community-driven success stories. An attempt to ‘level the playing field’ and stimulate competition as a means to promote greater…