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…
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…
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…
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…
Last weekend, I attended the first Fast Break event with Fastdate. This is a weekend away for singles. By the way, I detest the word “singles” (it stinks of desperation and I prefer “unmarried”). The idea is simple: a group of single people (about 16 men/women) go away for a weekend trip filled with activities….