Talk given May 23 as part of the RDI Roadmap process.

1. Trends in technology
in South Africa
(for ICT RDI Roadmap team)
(Pty) Ltd
Dr Derek W. Keats
http://www.dkeats.com
http://kengasolutions.com
derek@dkeats.com
+27 82 787 0169
Time: 20 mins

2. 1 Trend
0 s

3. Align for success
Vision People Process Technology
Clear Skills Creation Application
Known Commitment Deployment Supporting
Discussed Knowledge Operation applications
On agendas Competencies Support Operating system
Aligned to
examples
Connectedness Enhancement Hardware
other visions Emotional intelligence Innovation Network
Aligned to Problem solving Change Internet
other strategies Attitudes management User devices
Other strategies Beliefs Communication User operating
aligned to Actions system
vision Passion User applications
Fears
Hidden agendas
Politics
Underpinned by: appropriate and sustainable finance
Start here Do these together
(unless you are a start-up)

4. Align for success
Vision People Process Technology
Clear Skills Creation Application
Known Commitment Deployment Supporting
Discussed Knowledge Operation applications
On agendas Competencies Support Operating system
2 1 8
Aligned to
examples
Connectedness Enhancement Hardware
1
other visions
Aligned to
other strategies
Other strategies
Emotional intelligence
Problem solving
Attitudes
Beliefs
Innovation
Change
management
Communication
Network
Internet
User devices
User operating
aligned to Actions system
vision Passion User applications
Fears
Better by Hidden agendas We are not
Politics
imitation innovating
Underpinned by: appropriate and sustainable finance
syndrome innovation
Start here Do these together
(unless you are a start-up)

5. Trend 1
More ubiquitous and
affordable bandwidth
The veins and arteries
for the life blood of the
knowledge economy

6. Trend 1
More ubiquitous and
affordable bandwidth
http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/ by Steve Song under CC:BY license

7. Trend 1
More ubiquitous and
affordable bandwidth
http://manypossibilities.net/african-undersea-cables/ by Steve Song under CC:BY license

8. Trend 1
More ubiquitous and
affordable bandwidth
Where are we in South
Africa?
South Africa is lagging
other countries Open
Spectrum
Broadban
Rural bandwidth is d
Local loop
miserable and unbundling
innovation
expensive
Broadband
services
Last
mile Broadband
chall penetration
enge
Broadband
availability

9. Trend 2
Ubiquitous computing

10. Trend 3
Social everything
MySpace

11. Trend 4
Greater freedom &
openness
platforms
Platforms for
sharing and
remixing
Free Software content
(Open Source)
Interconnected
world of APIs
Licenses that
foster sharing
and re-usability More open
standards

12. Trend 4b
Less freedom &
openness
Subtle
erosion
of rights,
More emphasis on
erosion that
'intellectual property'
accumulates
Bigger patent
minefields
Extensions
to copyright
Dangerous goods
packaged to look
fabulous

13. Trend 5
It's a data-driven
world we live in

14. Trend 5
It's a data-driven
world we live in
Using the Web
to
connect related
data
Extends http
and URIs
Data can be
Linked data
read
automatically
by computers Data fm
different
You don't sources can
have to be be
human connected &
to access and queried

15. Location and context
Trend 6

16. Trend 7
Separation of computing
from location
Devices can
appear smarter
than they are
Virtualization
Utility computing
Cloud computing
Software & APIs
paradigm
hardware
as services

17. Trend 8
Ambient intelligence
environments that are sensitive
and responsive to the presence
of people
Role of
linked data

18. Trend 8
Ambient intelligence
Augmented
reality

19. Trend 9
Inadequate talent,
inadequate innovation

20. Trend 9
Inadequate talent,
inadequate innovation

21. Loss of idea capital,
Trend 10
little knowledge
economy production
ity of ideas that are contained in an initiative, the relationships am
to
s in
tem.

22. What mix is right? Doesn't
matter
USA SA Nigeria
100
Within
local
ecosystem
Outside of
local
ecosystem 0

23. What mix is right? Doesn't
matter
1 100
USA SA Nigeria
1
Better by
imitation We are not
syndrome innovating
Within innovation
local
ecosystem
Outside of
local
ecosystem 0

24. Thank you
Derek Keats, PhD
derek@dkeats.com
+27 82 787 0169
www.dkeats.com
kengasolutions.com
This presentation was made
entirely using Free Software