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DRONES (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles)
On the 17th of May 2015, the Director of the South African Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) announced that South Africa would introduce new regulations that will govern the use of remotely piloted...
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My Bookshelf: Private Equity In Emerging Markets
A growing number of international investors are finding themselves attracted to Private Equity within the emerging markets environment. The contributing factors to this include: rapid economic growth...
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The Digital Switch Over and Africa’s 17th of June Deadline
The International Telecommunications Union (ITU), an agency of the United Nations, coordinates the frequency spectrum band allocations for the purpose of optimizing spectrum usage and the reduction of...
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On the 30th of June 2015, the NETmundial’s Coordination Council held its inaugural meeting in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The meeting served as a platform for the adoption of key documents, discussion of the...
View ArticleBitcoin: Greece’s New Euro Workaround
On 10 July 2015, Greece’s daily ATM withdrawal limit was €60 a day, so if that was the case, how was it possible that on 3 July 2015, a very diligent Joaquin Fenoy wandered the streets of Athens,...
View ArticleWomen Hackers Unite
The past few months were incredibly busy months with the planning and preparation for the Cortex Hub’s first annual Women Hackers Unite event. The Cortex Hub is a technology incubator/accelerator based...
View ArticleMy Bookshelf: Machines of Loving Grace
As the Internet did twenty years ago, robots now stand poised to transform society completely. In this book, the author argues that it is imperative that people decide to design themselves into the...
View ArticleLessons from the Digital Classroom
The latest global trend has been an increased funding by investors of educational technology start-ups. The amounts invested into these types of start-ups has increased from $1,6 billion in 2013, to...
View ArticleSouth Africa’s Venture Capital Industry Now Worth R2bn
The South African Venture and Private Equity Association (SAVCA) recently released a survey which found that South Africa’s Venture Capital Industry currently manages R2-bn worth of assets. As...
View ArticleAmerica’s African Drone Wars: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow
This week the New York Times announced that the USA is planning the establishment of a new base for its drones in northwest Africa. This base will be utilized for flying unarmed surveillance drones,...
View ArticleNew Global Platform To Help Cities Become Sustainable & Smart Launched
It is predicted by 2050, 66% of the world’s population will live in urban areas. These urban areas will need to ensure that the populations living within them are adequately provided with basic...
View ArticleInput to the Gauteng Government Strategy Workshop -Thursday 28th January 2016
Good afternoon everyone It is indeed a great honour for me to address this very important gathering. The title of this paper is titled ‘The Internet Economy- where are we and where are we going” The...
View ArticleMobile World Congress 2016 Expectations
The Mobile World Congress is the largest annual conference and exhibition for the mobile communications industry and takes place in Barcelona at the end of the first quarter of the year. This year the...
View ArticleWill Fintech Restore Our Trust In The Financial System?
When we describe the world of tomorrow, perhaps one of the most exciting things to envision is the idea of the interconnectedness of the devices we will use and the idea of conducting transactions at...
View ArticleCape Town Art Fair 2016
The African Art market is experiencing a boom with South Africa and Nigeria set to take the lead. In the year 2014, the African art market was estimated to be worth more than twenty million British...
View ArticleThe IANA Transition and ICANN Marrakech
The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is the corporation responsible for the global assignment and management of names and Internet protocol numbers on the Internet. The...
View ArticleThe Wi-Fi Forum of South Africa’s 2016 AGM
The Wi-Fi Forum of South Africa has successfully completed its another year of operation, and as it enters the next year, a new management committee was elected to take over the lobbying for Wi-Fi...
View ArticleEast Africa Com
The 18th and 19th of May 2016 saw innovators and business leaders from all over the African Continent gather in Nairobi, Kenya for the annual East Africa Com conference and exhibition. The event, which...
View ArticleThe Snapt Story
2012 Signifies the birth of one of South Africa’s most successful start-ups to date. Snapt started out with the objective of creating products, which aimed to bridge the gap between open source and...
View ArticleThe Africa Internet Summit
Africa, a continent historically dependent on commodity prices when it comes to boosting economic performance has, as evidenced by the various gatherings that have occurred to construct the strategies...
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