Tech4Africa – The end of the rural disconnect and isolated thinking

October 6th, 2011 No comments

Tech 4 AfricaTECH4AFRICA is the premier mobile, web & emerging technology conference, bringing global perspective to the African context.”

Looking at the speaker lineup and focus areas you could easily be mistaken that tech4africa is for high tech city folk alone, but there is another side, which I would like to call “the end of the rural disconnect“.

As a technologist living in the Garden Route I experience on a daily basis the pain caused by poor connectivity, disconnected services and isolated thinking.

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Making the case for a Garden Route ICT Incubator

August 17th, 2011 9 comments

The Garden Route has a significant collection of great ICT talent.  The Garden Route IT Consortium has been working at unifying the local industry but, this has had limited success due to the economic difficulty most local ICT startups face in growing a sustainable business in this region.

Now it is time to take it one step further. By creating an ICT incubator we can use economies of scale to help these startups get their products designed and developed for less, get to market easier, etc. Collective design, manufacturing, procurement, marketing, and admin makes great economical sense.

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Custom bandwidth monitoring in Radius Manager

June 7th, 2011 No comments

“I could not possibly have used so much bandwidth” is a phrase I hear often. Until now it has been cumbersome and sometimes impossible to show hotspot and wireless users their own usage history using the standard radius manager reports.

As a result I decided to write a small set of scripts to monitor and display bandwidth usage of radius manager accounts.

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