F5.5G Leap-forward Development of Broadband in Africa The Africa Broadband Forum 2024 (BBAF 2024) was successfully held in Cape Town, South Africa recently, under…
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Matthew Buckland is an internet entrepreneur and investor with more than 20 years’ experience working in management and strategic roles for internet and technology businesses. His specialisation is internet and digital media, marketing and content. He founded the digital marketing and strategy agency Creative Spark which he sold in 2015, five years after he founded it, to UK-listed firm M&C Saatchi PLC. After an earn-out of approximately 3 years, Matthew eventually exited his company in 2018, taking a division of the company, Burn Media, with him. He currently runs the Burn Media Group -- a grouping of technology publishing brands which report on emerging markets: Memeburn.com, Ventureburn.com, Gearburn.com and others. Matthew is EIR to the Media Development Investment Fund (MDIF), a New York and Prague-based global media fund, helping its investees with digital strategy and business models in a range of countries. The MDIF has invested more than $166-million in over 114 independent businesses in 39 countries.
Have a look at this Google “heat map” that I took from 
Nitin Desai, Special Advisor to the Secretary General of the United Nations, had a few original words to say on the new wave of “We Media” sweeping the globe. He says that the key challenge – and this is the original part of what he said – is that we face a challenge in finding a business model that can combine the professionalism of the traditional, established media (fact checking; sources; trained journalists; ethics codes and training etc etc) with what we have on the web – the power of collaborative communities, citizen journalism, blogs, collective intelligence, number power etc etc…