Just received this from a friend. Not sure if this is correct or not. Good for a giggle though.
Last year the Minister of Communications, Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, said that "as a country we need to consider innovative and bold ways of increasing the rate of broadband penetration." She even formed a council, made up of "African experts of international caliber".
One would have expected the minister to include international experts from broadband leaders like South Korea, Japan and Denmark, but she had other ideas.
Her Broadband Council was to be chaired by Dr Victor Lawrence from Ghana, with the rest of the panel residing in Kenya, Senegal and Botswana.
Not one of the countries from where our minister's experts hail feature on the worldwide broadband map. South Africa is in fact ahead of all of them when it comes to broadband penetration rates, even though our current broadband penetration rates are a 16th of that of acceptable international standards.
Last year the Minister of Communications, Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, said that "as a country we need to consider innovative and bold ways of increasing the rate of broadband penetration." She even formed a council, made up of "African experts of international caliber".
One would have expected the minister to include international experts from broadband leaders like South Korea, Japan and Denmark, but she had other ideas.
Her Broadband Council was to be chaired by Dr Victor Lawrence from Ghana, with the rest of the panel residing in Kenya, Senegal and Botswana.
Not one of the countries from where our minister's experts hail feature on the worldwide broadband map. South Africa is in fact ahead of all of them when it comes to broadband penetration rates, even though our current broadband penetration rates are a 16th of that of acceptable international standards.
