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"What the FState govt website really cost" - MarkLives

And four other of the top stories on the website this week

The real cost of SA's most expensive website

by Arthur Goldstuck More was spent on the planning of the Free State government web site than most South African corporates have ever spent on the full development and implementation of their web sites.

Ben Terrett - Designing better government

Design Indaba 2013 Public design projects have been getting a bad name of late and Ben Terrett, Head of Design at the GDS - The British governments' Government Digital Service, wants to reverse the trend with GDS.

Daan Roosegaarde - hacking technology to personalise our environments

ehicles generating light through wind technology, dynamic lanes, using photoluminescent paint (that charges with sunlight) to create glow in the dark traffic lanes without the need for street lighting, induction priority lanes that charges electric cars as they drive. Roosegaarde wants roads to be more interactive and poetic as they form an essential aspect of our physical environment but has seen little innovation in the past century.

Social context and your brand

by Masingita Mazibuko Given the prevailing megatrends (megatrends take years and even decades to evolve, and tend to manifest in a number of microtrends, that is, emerging and niche behavioural changes, over the years) of Tech Life and Social Cohesion, the increasingly important role of Tech Life in enabling social cohesion is becoming clearer.

TEDActive 2013: Mankind's Greatest Invention Coming To A Species Near You

"If the internet is one of man's greatest inventions, how de we integrate the rest of the bio mass into it?" - Vint Cerf

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