Tag: strategy
What Google Should Do In Africa - Launch a Digital Television Station
This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series What Google Should Do in Africa - Part 2Inspired by the recent successful launch of the Television White Spaces pilot in South Africa, I am once again tempted to engage...
Unpacking Our Mobile Broadband Future ITU Y U NO LIKE WIFI?
The future is mobile. We all know that. We read it everywhere. In the UN Broadband Commission‘s recently published report entitled, The State of Broadband 2012: Achieving Digital Inclusion For All, ITU analysts boldly announce their belief that: “mobile broadband...
WGSDIA – Launch Gmail Zero
This entry is part 4 of 4 in the series What Google Should Do In AfricaThis is yet another post in a series in which I have the temerity to offer Google my unsought armchair strategic advice on what they...
SA Minister of Communications – Reading the Tea Leaves
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...
South African National Broadband Forum
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,...