On the weekend of the 19th of June, 2009, about 40 South African Internet personalities will gather for a weekend of informal conversation about the South African Internet. We’ll talk about what would make it better, how to stimulate innovation locally and what role there is for a more formal industry-wide body to carry on these conversations and representations in the future.

To quote Desmond Tutu, “A person with ubuntu is open and available to others, affirming of others, does not feel threatened that others are able and good, for he or she has a proper self-assurance that comes from knowing that he or she belongs in a greater whole and is diminished when others are humiliated or diminished, when others are tortured or oppressed.”

For one weekend, we will express what an Internet community that lives and works by the philosophy of ubuntu will look like.

These are the core themes:

1. How we’re stimulating innovation and entrepreneurship on the SA web and looking at opportunities for collaboration.

2. What kinds of principles are defining the way we do business and development on the SA web and where we should be moving (openness, transparency, diversity etc)

3. What kinds of collaborative, community-oriented projects are there out there that help to grow diversity, openness and transparency on the SA web and are there opportunities for more of these?

I set up a liveblog for the event to shareback, because there were some fascinating mind.snacks and brilliant brains to link into. Have a peek in >>