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Why me?Why me?
• Likely because I am not skinny – “don’t trust a skinny chef”
• I work at Internet Solutions, so perhaps I have insight into bandwidth pricing
• I have done a degree in economics and used to work for an investment bank, so perhaps I know stuff about the economy
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DisclaimerDisclaimer
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• Well, it already has: Afrihost @ R22 per GB standard, R14 if you are a customer and top up
• Already almost a 70% fall since launch of Seacom
So when the f*!k is bandwidth So when the f*!k is bandwidth prices going to come down?prices going to come down?
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• Yes, by international standards, SA is still over priced
• Problem now: national “backhaul” (fat pipes that can distribute all the connectivity)
• Mobile Operators, Neotel and DFA are laying down lots of fibre
Okay, but it is still high, right?Okay, but it is still high, right?
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Crazy Times
FOURTEEN cables landing on the African continent
New: WACS, ACE, Main One, Glo1, LION and EIG, SEACOM, TEAMS, EASSy, and the
Existing: SAT-3/WASC/SAFE and FLAG
Crazy TimesCrazy Times
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$6bn in spending (circa R42bn)
Increase capacity from 250Gbps to 1.5Tbps (thanks Seacom) to 10Tbps
Over capacity?
Capital Spigots are FlowingCapital Spigots are Flowing
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Okay Fatty, so what is your prediction?
By mid 2011 prices will have fallen by By mid 2011 prices will have fallen by at least half again.at least half again.
In rand terms, circa R10 per GB per In rand terms, circa R10 per GB per monthmonth
Disclaimer: this is prediction is in my own personal capacity and does not represent IS’s view
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Greater transparencyGreater TransparencyGreater Transparency
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The pirate party
The demand on networks is nothing short of phenomenalAT&T’s network is broken because of it
VideoVideo
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Mobile ticketing
Why use paper ticketing?
Mobile will increasingly replace the need for printed tickets
Mobile TicketingMobile Ticketing
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Augmented RealityAugmented RealityAugmented Reality
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Media farms
Taking your applications into The Cloud
The Cloud = Internet
Social Media is the paragon example of cloud computing
Cloud ComputingCloud Computing
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No chance. Still the best system by far.
So what happened?1.Bad frameworks – “rational investor”2.Bad regulation – regulators didn’t take time
to understand “credit derivatives”
No – not bad investment bankers.
The fall of capitalism?The fall of capitalism?
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The rise of behavioural financeThe rise of behavioural finance
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Cold war with Angola?
According to Stratfor, a global think tank, South Africa is at high risk of a cold war with Angola
Logic is that Angola’s oil wealth is now tapped and it is significant
Also, Angola increasingly appears a Chinese proxy
Cold War with Angola?Cold War with Angola?
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Reinventing Fire
We know how to save half of our oil and gas and three-quarters of our electricity at a cost that is a fraction of what we are paying now.
Amory LovinsRocky Mountain Institute co-founder, chairman and chief scientist
Reinventing FireReinventing Fire
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The World Cup
“Grounds for optimism, citing conservative estimates of benefits at about R56bn, that could reach R80bn”
Financial Times
The World CupThe World Cup
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Media farms
Mass production of contentReporting done by botsEditorials will be the only paid for content
Media FarmsMedia Farms
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Scarcity
Overcapacity and abundance has fallen
“With cost of distribution relentlessly driving towards zero, Chris Anderson, has once again identified the next big thing” Schmidt, on Anderson’s book “Free”
ScarcityScarcity
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Food
Cheap food is based on three things: cheap oil, plentiful water and a constant weather pattern.
Even if you don't believe in global warming, the one point that you can't really argue is that the price of oil is going to go up, and the big food chain was built on $30 a barrel of oil not $130
FoodFood
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“people are increasingly neglecting their voicemails,” explains Streicher
Study by Sprint: people under the age of 30 are 4 times more likely to respond to an SMS within minutes than a voicemail
Over 30, twice as likely
Consumers opting for voice-to-text messages.
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Voicemail is brokenVoicemail is broken
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Call Centres vs. Contact CentresCall Centre vs. Contact CentreCall Centre vs. Contact Centre
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geotagging
“check-in” – earn points – become the “mayor”
geotagginggeotagging
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Better measures than GDP?
France’s “Joie de Vivre” Index
Intended to provide a better Measure of well-being than GDP
More countries looking at other measures of prosperity, such as the Triple Bottom Line (people, profits &planet)
Better measure than GDP?Better measure than GDP?
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The pirate party
Challenging “groupthink” on copyright laws
Believe copyright impinges on culture
Parties in 28 countries around the world
The Pirate PartyThe Pirate Party
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Emerging Economies
“Even if developed countries recover completely in 2010, emerging economies will account for 70 - 75% of the growth in global output ‘for the foreseeable future”
New York Times
Emerging EconomiesEmerging Economies
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Emerging Economies
“China’s growth as an economic superpower is increasingly correlated with that of Africa, on which it now relies for 25% of its oil imports, reports the”
Financial Mail
Emerging EconomiesEmerging Economies
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Communications tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring
Clay Shirky, “Here Comes Everybody”
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Questions