Whilst Botswana's population is 2.3 million and internet users are just over one million, this actually means just a little under 50% of the population is using the internet, and that in itself is reason to celebrate as a country, making the digital economy easier to...
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ICT and transport ministerial — the definitive newsroom guide — for regional operators
A single SADC media statement, issued after a two-day ministerial meeting, is routinely compressed by wire services into a paragraph or two of headline approvals. What that compression loses is exactly what a regional operator needs to act: which named instruments...
Moakanyi Magazine | September 2019 | Bankability
Imagine that at some point you then get the chance or courage to learn about business development, create a business plan, draft business proposals for investment, then you apply, only to be told "your business is not bankable".
Protocol on Industry across SADC — the definitive newsroom guide — and what comes next
Regional summit communiqués are easy to write headlines from and hard to verify. On 17 August 2019, the Southern African Development Community adopted the Protocol on Industry — a development that will be described, within days, as everything from a minor bureaucratic...
Moakanyi Magazine | August 2019 | Beefy Exports
According to FAO, the world has 1.468 billion head of cattle, and Botswana has 2.5 million of that herd, and it is estimated to account for less than 2% of Botswana's GDP.
Reading the Record: What SADC’s SIBE Documents Actually Confirm
Regional programme launches generate two kinds of record almost immediately: the official communiqué, which states intent, and the underlying documentation, which — if a newsroom reads it carefully — states scope, financing and boundaries with more precision than the...
Moakanyi Magazine | July 2019 | Tswanovators
Disruption, innovation, and growth of any economy begins with risk, and there is tangible evidence that the people of Botswana are a disruptive people. This review is anchored on the Banking Supervision Annual Report 2017, and supporting reports; useful for the review...
Inside the SADC Archive: Documents, Data and Chronology — and What Comes Next
The single most useful fact about SADC's public document archive is also its most limiting one: it is organised by document type, not by date, event or theme. A researcher trying to establish what the bloc had actually achieved by a given point in time — this...
SADC regional broadband dialogue — the definitive newsroom guide — and what comes next
Every regional story eventually runs into the same newsroom problem: the institution says one thing happened, and the archive says something narrower. On 20 November 2018, the Southern African Development Community's broadband and ICT integration dialogue sits...