MIH SWAT

Coming from a Flash Developer background I have had no experience with mobile application development. From the time I saw the first phone to run Android, the G1, I have been itching to get into Android development. So when I was recently given the go-ahead to take this journey into the Android world, plus a shiny new Android phone , I was both excited and nervous (more…)

We are happy to anounce that SWATLabs, the showcase for the proof of concept applications that SWAT develops, has now gone live! (more…)

SWAT had the great pleasure of hosting the group of students from the Stellenbosch Media Lab at our offices today. (more…)

Want to see the (real) face of SWAT Brazil ? John and I went on a trip to Brazil very recently, and joined the team for a paintball battle and an excellent post-war dinner at Braz – arguably the best chain of pizzerias on the planet. (more…)

Being relatively new to the Scrum way of doing things (2 projects in progress and starting a 3rd), I thought it may be useful to start a series of blog posts on our experience of Scrum. To kick off I will start with our understanding of what scrum is. (more…)

Welcome to the blog of the Strategic Worldwide Applications and Technologies (SWAT) team of Naspers/MIH – a Global Media Company.

Naspers/MIH has one of the largest developing market investment portfolios in the Internet/Mobile space. You can see our investment portfolio here.

The SWAT team is a global product development and Internet Strategy team, comprised of Internet Analysts, Product Specialists and software engineers. Together we form a think tank and execution arm of the Internet division within Naspers, and this blog serves as our outlet for strategic thoughts, technological idea sharing and general discussion both with the users of the products within Naspers/MIH Internet as well as other new WWW destinations.

We encourage our team members as well as other Internet thinkers within our Group to write blog posts and welcome feedback and debate from the wider community.

Welcome All!

John Kotsaftis

CIO Naspers/MIH Internet