The long road to the 4IR

Notwithstanding the obligatory resistance from the State, the Judge agreed with Mmegi that the importance of the case demanded that Batswana see justice in action for themselves, untainted, ‘uneditorialised’, even unvarnished.

The victory, however, was soured somewhat by the challenges of actually setting up and delivering a data-driven live-stream for viewers. Essentially, the Courts, though they are of modern design, evidently did not anticipate that live-streaming by media would be something they needed to cater for. The greatest difficulty was not in the infrastructure. The modern design has catered for this abundantly with servers, connections and direct access to Bofinet, the national carrier of broadband.