Digital Citizens Indaba 2007 opens this Sunday

 Tomorrow I will be flying to Port Elizabeth for the 2nd time in just under a month. This flight has been booked by the gracious hosts from the Journalism and Media Studies department at Rhodes University, who are the organisers of this conference as well as the annual Highway Africa conference. Sadly, I will not […]

WWW2007 – Keynote – Dr Chris Kotze FNB Online Banking in South Africa

 Dr Chris Kotze, CEO of FNB Online, opened the 2nd day of the World Wide Web Applications Conference. He described online banking as the baby of the channels, mobile banking an even younger. More than 150, 000 “banking” users daily. 12-15K new users every month. 35 million transactions monthly. So the Internet is moving R90 […]

Keynote – Dr Pravin Gordhan: SARS and the Web

 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 […]

How is online social networking websites impacting children's ability to communicate

 This morning I was interviewed by Jeremy Maggs on the After 8 Debate (SAFM). The question on this debate is: are online social networking tools, such as Facebook, MXit & MySpace retarding our children’s ability to communicate? Lynne Cawood, director of Childline Gauteng and Steven Ambrose, director of World Wide Worx Strategy, were also on […]

Make laugh not war in Joburg

 Last night I attended the really awesome “Make Laugh Not War” show at the Nelson Mandela Theatre in Braamfontein. The cast included Riaad Moosa (MC), Joey Rasdien, Afzal Khan, Mo Magic from South Africa, and international comedians Azhar Usman, Preacher Moss, Mo Amer from Allah Made Me Funny Muslim comedy tour. Riaad, a medical doctor […]