Over the weekend I read an article which covered Koos Bekker’s recent talk at the Highway Africa conference, in Cape Town, where he spoke about how internet innovation is failing in Africa and Europe. Now before I carry on, I’d like to reiterate the definition of innovation I subscribe to, which can be found in [...]
I’ve been wanting to share my thoughts around innovation for a while. It is a broad topic and I won’t be able to explore it entirely in this post. However I would like to make some key points on innovation in South Africa, and to some extent, Africa. In some way, consider this post a [...]
Lately I’ve been thinking about the cost and complexity of software solutions sold to government. I really don’t understand how government gets away with spending billions of Rands on software solutions that aren’t delivered, don’t work or have stupid bugs. I think the tax payers and corporate sponsors should start seeing some results. South Africa’s [...]