David Johnson

Cape Town Area, South Africa, California South Africa

Principle Researcher at Meraka, CSIR and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at University of Cape Town

I believe in a fair open society where all people on the planet have access to the body knowledge we have accumulated over the past few thousand years. The answer came with the printing press to distribute knowledge that was in the hands of a few elite but the answer today is getting everyone a broadband affordable connection to the Internet. Broadband is a moving target which for now probably stands at about 5Mbps and Internet is considered affordable if users don't spend more than 5% of their income on access. I have been working for the past 10 years carrying out research with technologies in rural regions that have the potential to provide access to poorly connected regions. I have b...