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Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: Fellows Blogs, nsa, prism, Privacy, sim card, South Africa, Steve Song
- Prism – A Wake-up Call for South Africa?
- Richard Poplak wrote a great article earlier today in the Daily Maverick about how the balance between what we can know about government versus what they can know about us has gotten... Read more – ‘Prism – A Wake-up Call for South Africa?’.
Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: Fellows Blogs, Steve Song, Telecom Policy, TV White Spaces
- Spectrum and Development
- The following is a chapter I submitted to an upcoming collection of essays on Television White Spaces spectrum being put together by the Wireless Laboratory of the International Centre for... Read more – ‘Spectrum and Development’.
Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: africa, dynamic, Fellows Blogs, regulation, Steve Song, Telecom Policy, television white spaces, TV White Spaces, TVWS, UHF, VHF
- Television White Spaces Spectrum in Africa The Story So Far in 2013
- Last week I attended an event in Dakar entitled the TV White Spaces Africa Forum 2013. It was an event organised and largely sponsored by Google in partnership with a number of other organisations... Read more – ‘Television White Spaces Spectrum in Africa The Story So Far in 2013’.
Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: africa, digital dividend, digital switchover, Fellows Blogs, Innovation, Netflix, OTT, Steve Song, strategy, television
- What Google Should Do In Africa – Launch a Digital Television Station
- This entry is part 1 of 1 in the series What Google Should Do in Africa - Part 2Inspired by the recent successful launch of the Television White Spaces pilot in South Africa, I am once again tempted... Read more – ‘What Google Should Do In Africa – Launch a Digital Television Station’.
Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: All Things Open, Fellows Blogs, Open Data, Steve Song
- Right Openness If You Meet the Open Guru on the Road, Kill Him
- Let me start by saying how much I love Open Source software, peer production, the tide that raises all ships, Wikipedia, all things “open”. It is part of how I define myself. I love what... Read more – ‘Right Openness If You Meet the Open Guru on the Road, Kill Him’.