Members Bright Simons

I'm passionate about

African transformation and global renewal, through a synthesis of tolerance for heresy and a commitment to the intellectual and emotional sacrifices required for the erection of a new humanism.

An idea worth spreading

A complete overhaul of cyberethics as part of an effort to make cybersecurity truly relevant. Too many young people are growing up today with the view that there are no rules concerning their conduct in cyberspace and associated peripheries. Relying exclusively on cybersecurity is tantamount to a bet against collective genius. If the number of those who 'know no law' continues to far outstrip that of those sensitised to the need to observe minimal restraints in cyberspace, then on account of the 'genius of the masses' theory alone, any hope of cybersecurity is doomed. We must begin the mainstreaming of a revamped cyberethics sooner rather than later.

Talk to me about

Social innovation from a 'critical enquiry' perspective, and Africa with a 'what's the latest' attitude.

People don't know that I'm good at

Mixing and matching film vignettes with meditative musical interludes.

My TED story

I came I saw I believed.