SmileFM Interview: NGOs are being zero-rated across networks, just not quickly enough
On SmileFM, DGMT’s Innovation Director, Dr Busisiwe Kabane-Bailey, welcomed Rain’s decision to zero-rate the digital content of 23 public benefit organisations, and urged other mobile network operators to accelerate implementation in line with their licence obligations. She highlighted DGMT’s Social Innovation Register, which streamlines applications to ICASA, and explained why timely rollout matters: every delay […]
Op-ed: What the alcohol and advertising industries get away with
South Africa has a problem with alcohol, and I contributed to it. From 2002 to 2013, I worked in advertising, much of that time on alcohol brands for major producers and agents for international brands. In strategy sessions and pitches, I don’t recall anyone asking: “Are we adding to the alcohol problem in South Africa?” […]