Mark Tinka's guest appearances

Mark Tinka

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The DevBoks Podcast with Toni Yannick Kalombo

Viewpoints with Brenda

Byron Clatterbuck

Rob Knight

Mark Zuckerberg

Steve Briggs

Rob Brown

Panos Panay

Cathy Smith

Vinny Lingham

Riccardo Spagni

Peter Gray

John Collison

Jim Adams

Brent Curry

Mark Taylor

Charles Bolden

OwlTail

Mark Tinka is the Head of Engineering at SEACOM, Africa's pioneer ICT data infrastructure company. Mark speaks to Brenda about his illustrious journey shaping internet infrastructure across Africa and his love for afro-house music. We also chat about the future of work, internet governance &amp; policy in Africa and harnessing the internet as a driver of economic development in Africa.

Mark Tinka is the Head of Engineering at SEACOM, Africa's pioneer ICT data infrastructure company. Mark speaks to Brenda about his illustrious journey shaping internet infrastructure across Africa and his love for afro-house music. We also chat about the future of work, internet governance &amp; policy in Africa and harnessing the internet as a driver of economic development in Africa.

Mark Tinka on the Internet as a Driver of Development in Africa 

Mark Tinka is the head of Engineering at SEACOM and he is primarily based in South Africa.In this episode, Mark talks about how his passion for technology led him to an international career as an internet architect. Mark goes in depth about his perspective on the economics of technology in Africa and he opens up about his creative past time and how his love of wine ultimately led him to South Africa.

Mark Tinka is the head of Engineering at SEACOM and he is primarily based in South Africa. In this episode, Mark talks about how his passion for technology led him to an international career as an internet architect. Mark goes in depth about his perspective on the economics of technology in Africa and he opens up about his creative past time and how his love of wine ultimately led him to South Africa.

Episode 1 - Mark Tinka

In this promoted episode of the TechCentral podcast, Seacom head of engineering Mark Tinka explains why how South Africa – and the broader African continent – is falling behind the rest of the world in implementing Internet protocol version 6, or IPv6, and why this is potentially a very serious problem.Africa is the only region worldwide that has not yet run out of IPv4 addresses and this appears to have lulled communication service providers and enterprises in the region into a false sense of security.In the podcast, Tinka explains why the world is moving to IPv6, what is involved from a technical perspective and why Africa is so far behind in making the switch – and why this could prove to be a costly headache.It’s a great discussion – don’t miss it!

In this promoted episode of the TechCentral podcast, Seacom head of engineering Mark Tinka explains why how South Africa – and the broader African continent – is falling behind the rest of the world in implementing Internet protocol version 6, or IPv6, and why this is potentially a very serious problem. Africa is the only region worldwide that has not yet run out of IPv4 addresses and this appears to have lulled communication service providers and enterprises in the region into a false sense of security. In the podcast, Tinka explains why the world is moving to IPv6, what is involved from a technical perspective and why Africa is so far behind in making the switch – and why this could prove to be a costly headache. It’s a great discussion – don’t miss it!

Interview: Seacom’s Mark Tinka on why Africa is falling behind on IPv6