source: Sunday Standard
by Sunday Standard Reporter
15.11.2009 12:17:15 P

Although Botswana, like the rest of sub-Saharan Africa, has Internet connectivity challenges, online stakeholder communication will have to be adopted in future as a means of investor relations (IR).

Rob Stangroon, CEO of African Is Cool (AIC), an online IR consultancy firm said this week that online is the future of communication, but acknowledged that Africa’s needs are different unlike in the US where communications is 100% technology based.

“The barriers are Internet penetration in Africa and the laws that state that there should be physical delivery of annual reports, but this can be changed”, said Stangroon.

“There are barriers, but they are not insurmountable”. However, in Botswana it seems the laws are [continue reading]


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