The Wall Street Journal recently reported that YouTube is talking to major US film studios about offering movie rentals on the international video site. Speculation suggests they would charge about $3.99 (roughly R30 as of this writing) for on-demand...
I recently had a conversation with some people at Google about mobile applications for sub-Saharan Africa. Two key issues emerged: i) South Africa is ahead of the pack in terms of cellphone adoption, coverage and services, and ii) the lowest common d...
Being a communicator and debating knowledge is probably a central (and mostly subconscious) concern of most skills and traits. Sadly though, it seems that the skill of interpersonal communication or facilitating the "sympathetic meeting of minds" is ...
Internet users in South Africa hold their breath as they wait for the arrival of new undersea cables which promise to bring much higher bandwidth at much reduced prices. Hopefully.
But what constitutes a good deal in buying access to undersea fib...
A quick reminder, we’re asking questions and trying to answer them in a way that will get people to change. The questions are:
Why is the Internet advertising spend in South Africa one sixth that of Switzerland or even Belgium, when we share si...
A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is dimi...
Last week I attended the third annual eLearning Africa conference in Accra, Ghana. Approximately 1500 delegates from 83 countries, mostly in Africa, gathered to discuss, share and promote various approaches to information and communication technologi...
Isn’t South Africa just the most fun? We live in a land that is marked by one of the most incredible digital divides. Forget Third World South America, or Middle Africa. That’s different -– technology just never got off its feet and it’ll tak...
You may not have heard of this week’s choice for blogging Player of the Week, but you have probably come across her writing, reporting and commentary -- probably in isolation of the bigger picture of the amazing work she does in her blogs.
Dama...
A lack of true online payment options is crippling African e-commerce, and South Africa is no exception. The inability to accept payments for products and services on equal footing with the rest of the world means that many viable business options ar...
