Gates Foundation Global Libraries Meeting

By on April 17, 2013 in awards, research and strategy

I am very excited about an event I have been invited to present at next week in Cape Town, the 2013 Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation (BMGF) Global Libraries Peer Learning Meeting. The BMGF’s Global Libraries program supports efforts to supply and maintain free public access to computers and the Internet in ten countries around the world. [...]

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Content Strategy Ahoy!

By on March 9, 2013 in research and strategy

Towards the end of 2012 one of the projects we manage, the Ulwazi Programme, had plateaued in terms of new visitors to their website. At around 15,000 visits a month (all organic traffic), it was still doing well for a local (niche) content website with no promotional budget. Yet part of our brief from the [...]

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Rover of mine

By on March 7, 2013 in journalism

Article published in last week’s Sunday Times by my dad, on his epic trip overland from South Africa to England. Download the PDF …

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Hyperlocal website has – surprise, surprise – local users

By on February 5, 2013 in research and strategy

At the beginning of 2013 we launched, together with Sabine Marschall from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, a hyperlocal website focused on the community of Inanda, just north of Durban. The website, eNanda.co.za, aims to become a repository of stories on the culture and heritage of the community, with the intension of attracting more tourists to [...]

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Hello Internet, do you speak Zulu?

By on January 17, 2013 in research and strategy

Internet: “Not yet, but I’m learning”. Zulu as an online language There is still a noticeable lack of online content in Zulu, despite the fact that over 11 million South Africans list Zulu as their first language, according to Census 2011, and the fact that Zulu-language newspapers are thriving. With the growth in Internet usage [...]

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