The activism session started on an okay foot with Ethan Zuckerman, hosting the panel discussion. Next to him were two leading online political activists: Alaa Abd El Fattah, the Egyptian blogger who has been jailed for his activism and Ory Okolloh from the Kenyan Pundit blog. Ory’s session was to the point and highlights the…
The 2nd day of the Blogging Indaba opened with a cracker session, We The Media, featuring some heavy hitters like Matt Buckland, publisher of the Mail & Guardian online; Tom Johnson, professor emeritus of journalism at San Francisco State University and co-founder of the Institute for Analytic Journalism; and Peter Verweij, senior lecturer at the…
The conference has been a long time coming. And being a blogger myself, I just had to attend. Because it is such an excellent niche topic, “blogging”, this conference will grow in popularity in the coming years. I applaud the people from New Media Lab @ Rhodes University’s School of Journalism & Media Studies who…
There is no disagreement, the future will revolve around the conception of Convergence, portability, affordability, and mobile banking. The next three years are likely to be dominated by South Africans, the younger generation, going into mobile banking. The key thing is that, do we have a conducive environment that permits the information highway to benefit…
Elia Tsouros, Executive –Business Development, Verizon Business South Africa. This is an age of collaborations and convergence of media technologies-commoditisation of core communications, increased market maturity, but still more restrictions and legal uncertainty. However, security breaches curtail ‘social engineering’ and make it difficult for greater deregulation. Evolving business and revenue models in response to a…