Arthur Goldstuck, one of our oldest members, produces an annual report on the state of the Internet in SA. We all get to see this one as it’s sponsored by Peach payments (kudos and thanks for sharing) and you can download and use it from here. Entrepreneurs find it useful. We can only say wow, […]

Did you notice that the cost of fibre is going up and the speeds are too, whether you like it not. Do you use fibre or want to use fibre for your internet?Is your fibre fast?Is it reliable?Is it affordable? If these questions are important to you, you should join our group. We, the Internet […]

The Internet Society was founded by two of the “fathers of the Internet” — Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn — to facilitate and support the evolution of the Internet and its beneficial use. They are also accredited with the technical invention of the Internet. Both seen here talking about it candidly, and we are sharing […]

We’re having a short AGM together with our sister organisation Internet South Africa. There will be a short reportback on activities and an appeal to read the ZADNA regulations out for comment. The event will be the first time we have two locations (Joburg and Cape Town) happening concurrently online and realtime. Internet South Africa […]

Yesterday we submitted the following response to the budget advertised by the zaDNA last month. We will be following and hope to engage further with their new board of directors. The following are key points: Income has flattened, this is the first time that there has been a decrease in the number of .za domain […]

The Internet Society of South Africa invites you to attend our AGM 2020, Thursday 27 Feb, 2020 at 5:30 PM – 7 PM, at SOtano on Bree, Cape Town

Have you seen these photos in ads on Facebook? or on other news sites? The following one is similarly common: These are all scams and frauds, and there are many more like this. Please do be careful to double check all facts before believing anyone. Mark did put out a warning many years ago yet […]

On March 28 2019 the AGM of the ISOC-ZA was held at Sotano on Bree St. Chairman welcomed members to the meeting and delivered Chairmans report which included a recommendation by the committee to split the functions of our organisation. There were extensive discussions and subsequent acknowledgement that some confusion that may ensue. There was […]

ISOC-ZA salutes Wikimedia South Africa http://www.wikimedia.org.za/ on some great successes in adding South African languages to Wikipedia. We recommend board member Ian Gilfillan’s blog post which highlights the main contributors. ISOC-ZA supports any member wishing to apply for a grant to assist to sustain and grow this activity.

We recently met ISOC Libya at the ICANN #59 and agreed to make an informal partnership as we did when meeting ISOC China some few years back. These local ISOC organisations are not yet affiliated with ISOC global yet have similar thinking to all of Internet Society. Our Italian contemporary recently referred to the term […]