Introducing the Inaugural Soweto Innovation Week

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25 points·techieinafrica··6 comments

@Oneweekwonder - Many conferences are held weekly in South Africa, latest being the Mining Indaba with Tony Blair as speaker. All conferences go ahead without interruption because contingency measures are put in place. Load shedding and generators are not unique to Soweto or the Soweto Theatre.

@kabouseng - Don't comment on things and a country you have very little knowledge og lest you stick your foot in your mouth.

- How will load shedding affect this conference?

- Does the Theatre have generators?

I find it funny and sad that a technology and digital conference is held in a country that can not even keep its power on, a basic need for digital technology.

You are referring, I presume, to the technology conferences held in California during the early 2000's?

No, but why do you believe so?

What is even more funny is the countries obsession with being politically correct, so that a technology conference is not held in the countries technology hubs, but in Soweto. Soweto is a shanty town, so your technocrats aren't living there, and it is way to dangerous to make it worthwhile to attend.

It would be perhaps be a fair comparison if the USA was holding a high technology conference in Detroit in a shanty town perhaps.

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