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SPEAKER: Various technology
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MIKE JENSEN
Telecentres and the future African Information
Society
Mike Jensen is an
independent consultant with experience in more than 30 countries in Africa
assisting in the establishment of information and communications systems
over the last 15 years. He subsequently returned to South Africa to work as
a journalist on the national Rand Daily Mail newspaper in Johannesburg in
1983. When the paper closed he moved back to Canada and in 1986 he
co-founded the country's national Internet service provider for NGOs, called
coincidentally, The Web.
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A South African based in Port
St Johns in the East Cape, Mike Jensen sent his first email 20 years ago
while studying rural planning and development in Canada.
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After helping to set up a similar ISP in Australia in 1989, he returned to
South Africa where he works with international development agencies, the
private sector, NGOs and governments assisting them in the formulation,
management and evaluation of their Internet projects and Telecom projects,
focusing on public access, wireless technologies, VSAT and IT
infrastructure. Jensen is a trustee of the African IT Education Trust, a
board member of the South African Interner service provider for NGOs -
SangoNet - and was a member of the African Conference of Ministers' High
Level Working Group which developed the African Information Society
Initiative (AISI) in 1996. He manages a popular web site on the status of
Internet in Africa - http://www3.sn.apc.org/africa
mikej@sn.apc.org
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