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iWeek 2006 Summary: Lets Start The Internet Revolution

 

 This whole week, I have been blogging the conference, indeed gaining enormous experience as a researcher and Internet Marketer. Speakers from Germany, Namibia, Belgium, Singapore, China, South Africa and other parts of the world delivered groundbreaking research presentations. The Internet in South Africa is growing at a slow pace, but progress has been made over…

iWeek Conference 2006: Wim Roggeman-ISPA,Society, Child Porn, racism and hate Speech.

 

 Wim Roggeman has been the President of ISPA Belgium since 2004, which was formed in 1997. This non-profit organisation was created to promote the interests of Belgian companies providing Internet services. Its members account for 97% of all Internet connections in Belgium. ISPA Belgium publishes a quarterly market survey on the development of the Belgian…

iWeek 2006: Dr Tracy Cohen – Credibility in telecoms regulation

 

 Dr Tracy Cohen has been a Councillor at the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa since 1994. Dr. Cohen is currently an Honorary Research Fellow in the Graduate School of Public and Development Management and sits on the editorial board for the South African Journal of Information and Communication. She is also an advisory panel…

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iWeek Conference 2006: Veni Markovski – Civil society and government: making internet more accessible.

 

 How civil society and government can work together to make the Internet more accessible, Mr Markovski is a Senior Advisor, Government Agency for Information Technology and Communication, as well as Chair of the board Internet Society Bulgaria. His speech could be summarised as an attempt to design rules of engagement on ICT and related topics,…

iWeek 2006: Ferdinand Tjombe:The status of Internet and VoIP in Namibia

 

 “I was asked to talk about VoIP in Namibia, but I can not do so because there isn’t any”, reiterated Mr Ferdinand Tjombe, an Executive Chairman of Namibia Strategic Business Communications (NSBC). Namibia, like many other developing countries, is faced with critical challenges ranging from political interference, operators taking over “our markets” as the concentration…