- Vodacom – Oh Really?
- Vodacom Group CEO Pieter Uys seems like a nice guy. I’ve never met him but you look at his picture and you think, here is a decent fellow. Which makes it all the harder to credit his... Read more – ‘Vodacom – Oh Really?’.
- Sympathy for the Tinkerer
- Tinkering gets a bad rap and I am making it my personal mission to rehabilitate the term. I keep an eye out for articles about tinkering and it is dismaying to see tinkerers getting the same raw deal... Read more – ‘Sympathy for the Tinkerer’.
- Fair Mobile – Two Years On
- In which I re-assert my self-appointed role of digitally holding African mobile operators’ feet to the fire for their rent-seeking behaviour. In today’s spotlight is Vodacom South... Read more – ‘Fair Mobile – Two Years On’.
- Chiclete Com Banana
- On Wednesday this week I was fortunate enough to spend a couple of hours chatting with Gilberto Gil. I am still pinching myself. When I was 17, I was an exchange student for a year in Brazil. It... Read more – ‘Chiclete Com Banana’.
- What I liked about the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship
- Guilty admission. I am a fault finder. Show me a perfect rose and I will find the petal that is slightly wilted. Or at least that’s how I grew up. I’ve spent much of my adult life... Read more – ‘What I liked about the Skoll World Forum on Social Entrepreneurship’.
Written by: Steve Song
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Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: Fellows Blogs, Innovation, Learning, Steve Song, tinkering
Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: Fair Mobile, Fellows Blogs, mobile, pricing, South Africa, Steve Song, Telecom Policy
Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: All Things Open, Connecting South, documentary, Fellows Blogs, Gilberto Gil, open culture, Steve Song, ubuntu
Written by: Steve Song
Posted in: Fellows Blogs, Innovation, Learning, participation, philosophy, skoll, skollwf, Social Entrepreneurship, Steve Song