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Ian was born in Apartheid South Africa and brought up in a family that actively opposed the system of entrenched racism that prevailed in that country at the time. Under different circumstances Ian might have grown up as a well-known artist, but instead pursued a lifetime of activism, first as a volunteer and later as a professional election strategist and organizer for the liberal Progressive Federal Party.
When apartheid ended he became an activist for reconciliation: actively working on the ground at community level for the National Peace Accord structures to make Nelson Mandela’s dream of the South African Rainbow Nation a reality.
He then spent a period in the NGO environment, focu
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East London, Eastern Cape
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Director, Internet Marketing
About
Ian was born in Apartheid South Africa and brought up in a family that actively opposed the system of entrenched racism that prevailed in that country at the time. Under different circumstances Ian might have grown up as a well-known artist, but instead pursued a lifetime of activism, first as a volunteer and later as a professional election strategist and organizer for the liberal Progressive Federal Party.
When apartheid ended he became an activist for reconciliation: actively working on the ground at community level for the National Peace Accord structures to make Nelson Mandela’s dream of the South African Rainbow Nation a reality.
He then spent a period in the NGO environment, focu
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collaboration
education
entrepreneurship
art
ubuntu
p2p economy
social cohesion
p2p
commodities
win-win solutions
deal-making
mediation
trading
mavens; connectors; salesman
malcolm gladwell; the tipping point; startup; lean
networking
stickiness factor
law of the few
connectors maven
salesman
malcolm gladwell
the tipping point
local economic development
peer production
purification
capricorn
sensorica
water
ubuntu.
open-innovation
led
See more