At the Cape Town International Conference Centre, ISOC-ZA facilitated a joint forum between ICANN and the World Blind Union on Internet Accessibility for the blind. The forum was webcast for those that could not attend. The panel consisted of worlwide experts including: Hein Wagner: International Sales manager for Thawte Consulting, born blind and whose achievements […]

In Cape Town, Karel Rode (Western Cape Security Special Interest Group) and Craig Balfour (CLUG – http://clug.org.za) spoke about more viruses and worms that are worming their way into the majority of desktops.

We were discussing VOIP with a selected panel of industry experts and government decision-makers on this subject. The panel included; Mr. Alan Levin (Renowned African Internet Activist), Envir Fraser from the Department of Communications, Mr. Andre Ferreira (VoIP Networking Specialist) and Richard Heath (Attorney from MWEB and ISPA).

Dimo Calovski from the UNCTAD Electronic Commerce Branch spoke followed by Wendy Seltzer who chatted about the role and transformation of civil society organizations in the information society. Wendy is a staff attorney with Electronic Frontier Foundation. Covered by ITweb

One of the earlier archives is of Mike Lawrie in celebration of 10 years of Internet Connectivity To commemorate 10 years of leased line Internet connectivity in South Africa a function was held at the IBM Conference Auditorium, Sandown on the 28th February 2002. Mike Lawrie gave an informal talk entitled ‘A funny thing happened […]