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Interesting Article on IT and Education in South Africa

Monday, July 18, 2011

The South African government is making a move to end an eight-year software donation deal with Microsoft, after monetised terms were introduced. The Gauteng Online Schools Project (GOSP) was a beneficiary of the donation programme and will not be able to afford the new terms, according to Dick Rayner, project manager at the Gauteng Department [...]

The eavesdropping model

Friday, December 5, 2008

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Christine Prefontaine, a woman I admire in the area of knowledge sharing recently posted a blog about the eavesdropping model. A form of communication that is different from the investigative journalism that ties communication people down. Spending so much time trying to getting every details and missing some of the bits along the way or [...]

Move out PowerPoint, in comes Open Space Facilitation

Friday, July 11, 2008

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Many times we attend good, highly organized, sometimes all expenses paid conferences but leave mostly with nothing or very little to talk about. Half of the time, participants are asleep! That’s literally. I have discovered that it is not the lack of content that explains this but actually the facilitation methods. Sitting through endless, boring, [...]