in Cape Town suburb,
We went to the living lab at the Impact center in Bridgetown/
athlone following, brought over there by Marlon Parker.
We met with former gangsters, substances dealers and addicts. They shared their former lives with us and spoke about the new life they are getting into. It was very inspiring.
We visited ¾ of
Athlone in order to see and feel the people and the community heartbeat throughout Bridgetown,
Kewtown, and
Sylvertown. We noticed the infrastructure cover:
- Impact centre
- Community centre
- Churches
- Mosque
- Library
- Civic centre
- Community theatre
- Police station
- Community health centre
- Clinics
- hospital
-
Crèche- Eros school (Children with disabilities)
- Primary, high school, and College of cape town campus
- Tuck shop (almost 50)
-
Shoprite store
- Van gate mall
- Stadium
- Train station
Those infrastructures are the sign that the City of Cape Town is trying to improve people life condition. The city authorities tried to create employment, open the locality to the rest of the city, early educate inhabitant, to care about their health, and to bring them other possibilities of interest like sport, art performance and etc.
It came to us that people are very young in that community with 2/3 under 40 years old. But 2/3 are unemployed (Source: City of Cape Town, ECONOMIC AND HUMAN DEVELOPMENT DEPARTMENT 2005/06,
Socio-Economic Profile of Ward 49, general information from Census 2001, Statistics South Africa extracted by Innovation, Information and Knowledge management Directorate).
Community issues: Unemployment, criminality, substance abuses, sexual abuses, insecurity, hopelessness.
Possible problems: Educational and Cultural trouble (Knowledge of the good)
Possible solution: inoculate
Ubuntu philosophy to people
Technology point of view: Why shouldn't we bring
technics like data mining, or business intelligence to help see better the community issues and know the accurate answers to provide?
What I learnt: Reiteration of a belief that people can change to the good. They certainly need someone to take them by the hand and show them how to go.
NB: No intention to offense. This is only a feedback of an enriching experience.
At the multipurpose building of the Cape Peninsula University Of Technology, I was laying up a ball towards the basket. Yep... I still can do these things.
A team of friends. The story continues ...
Just arriving at Port Elisabeth airport for the 2009ZAWWW where I was an invited speaker under CPUT banner. 
The conference venue was next to the Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University which was cohost of the event with CPUT.
I really don't want to explain how hard it is to speak in front of people; but it comes to do the exercise in front of a panel of expert on the subject you are speaking on, it get worse. I got good comment of my presentation of my article entitled "Mobilising an Obama nation using Web 2.0:Yes we can". It was all about online campaigning using web 2.0 .
A beach near the conference venue. I know nothing about it except that it is beautiful and fresh.
An unnamed building. Beautiful but no body told me anything about it.
My supervisor Marlon Parker and I at the end of the confernce.
Other speakers at the conference and lecturers at CPUT. at the right end is Mr Jay Barnes and at the left Mrs Ziestmann
Certaily the best part of the conference, the last relaxing meal with friends. We realy shared great moments together.
The Ubuntu festival, celebration of a “Mandela’ day” by the Mandela Rhodes Hotel here in Cape Town, told us how “yes we are because others are”. 
