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SA Minister of Communications – Reading the Tea Leaves

By Steve Song, on May 11th, 2009

Arthur Goldstuck has written a thoughtful piece on the newly appointed South African Minister of Communications, Siphiwe Nyanda, and his new deputy Dina Pule. He does a good job of highlighting their key strengths and weaknesses.

Based on their lack of experience in the telecom sector, much will depend on who they choose to be advised [...]

South African National Broadband Forum

By Steve Song, on March 18th, 2009

I am getting quite excited about the upcoming South African Broadband Forum next week. Inspired by the coalition that emerged in the United States to get broadband infrastructure investment on the political agenda in the run-up to the U.S. election, the Association for Progressive Communications, the Shuttleworth Foundation, Sangonet, and the South Africa Connect project [...]