Editor’s letter

Editor’s letter

I am honoured to start the process of working with the IOL Tech team team as an editor. I’m looking forward to playing a role in enhancing the quality of technology content in South Africa. I’m also looking forward to engaging further with you as loyal readers of IOL Tech magazine. I’m joining IOL Tech when South Africa is reflecting on the first year of the pandemic and also sharpening its response to Covid- 19.

In the pages of IOL Tech digital magazine we highlight the intersection of health and technology and how technology can keep you in good health.

Our Live editor, Yasmine Jacobs, focuses on how games can keep you fit, while Floyd Matlala takes us through gadgets that can keep us in good shape.

If you are big on apps you will appreciate the apps review by Masabata Mkwananzi as it focuses on what we need to keep our health in check.

Our guest contributor, Farah Khalfe, goes behind the scenes of the famous N95 mask.

As far as health tech matters are concerned on the continent, I was deeply impressed by the drone delivery of vaccines in Ghana. Sit back read all about it in this edition of IOL Tech digimag.

As I write this editorial there are noises about a third wave as we approach the Easter weekend. Although there’s a vaccine rollout, we may need to continue to work from home.

We are keen to hear your technology experiences during lockdown. Tell us what it’s like to use technology from home, which devices have been useful on your work-from-home life, and we may just publish your experiences in our next digital magazine. Stay connected online with us and each other via https://twitter.com/ TechIol

Wesley Diphoko