A civilized list when not to use email
Hot on the heals of my previous post about email jokes causing information pollution I found a new manifesto on the very topic of bad email etiquette published here. Some of this could certainly apply to SMS or text messages as well.
The lack of Email Netiquette as the Internet grows in South Africa
My mentor Arthur Goldstuck has just released his latest stats on Internet growth in South Africa. According to his annual study growth has slowed down to 3% per annum and by the end of 2007 we will have ONLY 3.85 million South Africans online. This is including the explosion of access since broadband became available […]
TEDGlobal 2007: Session 12: Patrick Awuah
Patrick Awuah left Microsoft to found Asheshi University. The questions of transformation in Africa is a question of leadership. He gives a shocking example of two incidents at a hospital when they lost power. Learned about courage when stopped at age 16 and stopped by soldiers who wanted him to join some protesters. He found […]
TEDGlobal 2007: Session 11: Ory Okolloh
Africa is a continent full of contradictions. You’re Harvard educated and you’re coming here to tell us what to do? She told us about her experiences growing up. Although not in the slums she grew up poor. She was sent to a expensive school and kept being thrown out. And once when she failed she […]
TEDGlobal 2007: Session 11: James Shikwati
This is the 2nd talk on the second last session of TEDGlobal 2007. We need to commercialising enterprises or entrepreneurship in Africa. Chris Anderson, TED curator, described him as one-man think tank, a libertarian economist. Address famine as a business opportunity. Lost $200 million due to famine in Kenya. Estimated cost 300 to 500 million […]