Shrien Dewani is the latest case in point of how your online past can come back to haunt you.
Digital TV is meant to enable a host of benefits, but by the time our country gets its act together, these will be moot.
Everyone can take a leaf out of the City of Tshwane's WiFi hubs, which are starting to look beyond enabling connectivity.
At this late hour, it would perhaps serve us well to stop asking when digital TV will happen and start asking why it hasn't.
The reactions of online communities show us more about ourselves than the victims.
The e-toll review is clear evidence that the system is failing in its current format, but was it poverty or civil disobedience that really brought it down?
At $900, the first smartphone was launched 20 years ago. You may not realise it, but today you hold in your hand a multi-thousand-dollar device.
Some government departments seem to be getting their tech objectives right, some occupy an awkward middle ground, but others are way off the mark.
Our reluctance to punish fraudsters is part of the problem.
Judging by the huge sum Sanral is owed, most people refuse to pay e-tolls - but the question is: just how accurate are those numbers?
Are unnamed spokesmen misleading the transport minister?
While bridging the technology access gap is important, it shouldn't stifle government's drive to introduce more e-governance services.