KampfGherkin
Well-Known Member
I wrote a similiar post from this article, but just wanted to post it here in the hopes that it gets more responses.
[ What does the ICT sector wish for in 2007?]
http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=5196
*cries
When I still lived in Germany, I had 768 Kbit/s DSL @ 25 Euros per month with no cap, no shaping.
That was early 2002! 5 Years later and we're still no closer to that here in SA. Now my best friend in Germany sports ADSL2+ 20 Mbit/s with VoiP and IPTV (Tripe Play) for a measly 70 Euros. No analogue line/phone, no seperate TV/Satellite receiver! Everything through one pipe.
Waaaahhhhh!
The end result is, that South African web content is downright poor if non-existant. (This is such a major issue and it never gets directly talked of.) Ever try googling for local content? Try to google a particular shop in your neighbourhood to see where there is one and how to get there? Search the same string internationally and you're bound to get hundreds of thousands of hits. Do that locally in South Africa and you're likely to get 500+ hits. And if you're lucky, the first ten might actually have something to do with your entered search result.
See all these so-called Web 2.0 developments happening in the rest of the world? YouTube, MySpace and so on. Local developers are stuck at the arse end of the world in terms of being able to compete. But judging from someone like Mark Shuttleworth's ICT successes, this definitely need not be so. We obviously have talented people (if they're not off overseas, I'd imagine).
How much local innovation and development is being stifled and killed off due to our woeful situation?
*goes into his corner to cry some more
[ What does the ICT sector wish for in 2007?]
http://www.mybroadband.co.za/nephp/?m=show&id=5196
*cries
When I still lived in Germany, I had 768 Kbit/s DSL @ 25 Euros per month with no cap, no shaping.
That was early 2002! 5 Years later and we're still no closer to that here in SA. Now my best friend in Germany sports ADSL2+ 20 Mbit/s with VoiP and IPTV (Tripe Play) for a measly 70 Euros. No analogue line/phone, no seperate TV/Satellite receiver! Everything through one pipe.
Waaaahhhhh!
The end result is, that South African web content is downright poor if non-existant. (This is such a major issue and it never gets directly talked of.) Ever try googling for local content? Try to google a particular shop in your neighbourhood to see where there is one and how to get there? Search the same string internationally and you're bound to get hundreds of thousands of hits. Do that locally in South Africa and you're likely to get 500+ hits. And if you're lucky, the first ten might actually have something to do with your entered search result.
See all these so-called Web 2.0 developments happening in the rest of the world? YouTube, MySpace and so on. Local developers are stuck at the arse end of the world in terms of being able to compete. But judging from someone like Mark Shuttleworth's ICT successes, this definitely need not be so. We obviously have talented people (if they're not off overseas, I'd imagine).
How much local innovation and development is being stifled and killed off due to our woeful situation?
*goes into his corner to cry some more
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