Dr Pravin Gordhan, commissioner of the South African Revenue Service (SARS), opened the WWW2007 conference with a keynote on SARS and the Web. More generally, how the government is using technology to alleviate poverty, create jobs. He asked many questions like: We have a huge asymmetry in the population who have very good access and…
Dr Marlene Wasserman, aka Dr Eve, was the final speaker at this excellent workshop held by Psychologies Magazine at the beautiful Groot Constantia in Cape Town. The first thing Dr Ev made us do was to get up and dance or move around a little bit to the music in the hall. She was trying…
Dr Helgo Schomer was the 2nd speaker at the Psychologies Workshop I attended on Saturday, 28 July in Cape Town at Groot Constantia. The first time I met Dr Schomer was after hearing him on 702/Cape Talk when he was a regular on the Tim Modise show before Tim resigned to run communications for the…
This past Saturday, I attended the first-ever Psychologies Magazine Readers’ Workshop at the beautiful and picturesque Groot Constantia. I had only picked up one copy of this magazine and enjoyed most of it. It’s exactly my cup of tea. One thing that bothered me, though, was that this magazine is aimed at women. And I…
Last week, I was invited to present a lecture at the University of Johannesburg by the Department of Information & Knowledge Management, where I am an alumnus as well as currently registered for my Master’s degree in Information Science. Contact Andrea Ferreira if you would like to be added to their list for similar seminars…