One universe, one supercluster, one galaxy, one star, one planet, ...I saw this on Ulric van Vuuren’s Instagram when he followed me on Twitter: One human race. One love. One […] 25th June 2017 in Critical thinking tagged universe by Derek Keats
A post scarcity university for the innovation economyIn my last blog post, I talked about some of the characteristics of a university designed for the […] 19th June 2017 in Education tagged education / higher education by Derek Keats
Government’s Integrated Financial Management System (IFMS): another example of the ...A few years ago (maybe 10 years), many of us in the Free and Open Source Software (FOSS) […] 19th June 2017 in Free and open source software tagged FOSS / government / proprietary by Derek Keats
Universities in South Africa: we need two new ones for ...When I made my posting about an innovation economy for South Africa, point 8 that I made was […] 18th June 2017 in Critical thinking / Education tagged higher education / innovation / universities by Derek Keats
What does an innovation economy involve for South Africa?In my last post, inspired by a ventureburn article by Barry Dwolatzky, I mentioned an innovation economy for […] 13th June 2017 in Critical thinking / Strategy tagged government / innovation / South Africa by Derek Keats
Ditching the rhetoric and building an innovation economy for South ...This morning I arrived at my computer to see a post from my brilliant friend and former colleague, […] 12th June 2017 in Critical thinking / Strategy tagged government / innovation / South Africa by Derek Keats
An ecosystem approach to ICT implementation in SA higher educational ...An ecosystem approach to ICT implementation in SA higher educational institutions was prepared for the SAICTED Flash MOOC, […] 4th June 2017 in Strategy tagged ICT by Derek Keats
Why ANC politicians will not solve poverty in South AfricaI don’t usually post political statements. However, the current political mess in South Africa is maddeningly frustrating. The […] 4th June 2017 in Critical thinking by Derek Keats
Lions of Kgalagadi Transfrontier ParkIn April, I was lucky enough to be in the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park for two weeks. It is a […] 22nd May 2017 in Nature photography tagged Kgalagadi / lions by Derek Keats
In South Africa, there is something wrong with our storyWe humans are story creators, or at least some of us are. We create good stories (freedom, human […] 21st May 2017 in Critical thinking by Derek Keats
Giant kingfishers at Walter Sisulu National Botanical GardenI am going to try a little activity log for a change. Today, unusually in the afternoon, I […] 20th May 2017 in Birds and bird photography tagged birding / kingfisher by Derek Keats
If wishes were courses, people might think: the hazards of ...Note this is an old post that I forgot to publish!! I care about truth. Of course I […] 20th May 2017 in Critical thinking by Derek Keats
Science as a way of thinking: something we need ...Carl Sagan’s amazing perspective – we need our own in South Africa, to get thinking back on the […] 24th March 2017 in Critical thinking by Derek Keats
The black-faced waxbills of ZaagkuildriftStrangely, even though I have been chasing birds around the bush for about five years now, and half seriously […] 22nd March 2017 in Birds and bird photography tagged birding / birds by Derek Keats
Warbler weekend at ZaagkuildriftLast weekend (March 17-19) was spent providing food for mosquitoes and learning warblers with Etienne Marais and Sheleph […] 21st March 2017 in Birds and bird photography by Derek Keats
Nautilus plugins (Public Domain) for working with icons to enhance ...Quite a lot of the documentation that I write for work involves using icons as part of the […] 19th February 2017 in Free and open source software / Ubuntu tagged icons / images / Nautilus / plugin / scripts by Derek Keats
Free (public domain) LibreOffice Draw, LibreOffice Impress and PowerPoint pillar ...People familiar with me know that I believe in sharing digital resources freely whenever this is possible. I […] 15th February 2017 in All things free and open / LibreOffice tagged diagram / impress / LibreOffice / pillars / public domain / strategy by Derek Keats
Free (public domain) LibreOffice Draw, LibreOffice Impress and PowerPoint hexagon ...People familiar with me know that I believe in sharing digital resources freely whenever this is possible. I […] 11th February 2017 in All things free and open / LibreOffice tagged diagrams / graphics / LibreOffice / PowerPoint / public domain by Derek Keats
The hollowing of our universities through lack of government leadership ...As we watch events unfolding at our universities, on the fringes of the FeesMustFall movement, we see a […] 12th October 2016 in Education by Derek Keats
The wrymouth a ghost of a fishGhost fish seemed an appropriate name the first time I saw one, For a fleeting second, in the […] 6th October 2016 in Diving, underwater and intertidal / The natural world tagged diving / fish / ghostfish / ichthyology / muddy bottom / Newfoundland / research opportunity / strange creatures / Terra Nova National Park / wrymouth by Derek Keats
The fiction of countriesI have citizenship in two countries, something that sometimes is hard for people to understand. This is particularly […] 1st October 2016 in Critical thinking / Thought for the day by Derek Keats