Today is a day for reflecting on the inadequacies of using ICTs in South Africa. This morning laura posted a sobering reminder about the connectivity divide and digital exclusion. And now I'm bombarded on facebook by stories of Winston the pigeon (with some 1500 fans on facebook already) making a point about the boradband divide. Winston flew 4GB of data some 70km's in in 2 hrs 6 minutes 57 seconds whilst the ADSL download was "still just under four percent complete" at 11:45 (when Winston successfuly delivered the files). And thats with ADSL. Can't imagine how long that would have taken at UCT. Whats more impressive is his multitasking capabilities. he even twittered en route :-)

So my thought for today is: Access is not an either / or and exisits in gradations. Access cannot be taken for granted in South Africa and even those that have it are limited.