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Chief Research Officer
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The Vernonburg Group
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Chief Research Officer
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City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa
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David Johnson is listed as Chief Research Officer at The Vernonburg Group, based in City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa. AeroLeads shows a work email signal at vernonburggroup.com and a matched LinkedIn profile for David Johnson.
David Johnson previously worked as Adjunct Associate Professor at University Of Cape Town and Adjunct Senior Lecturer at University Of Cape Town. David Johnson holds Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Computer Science from University Of California, Santa Barbara.
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I strive towards a fair open society where all people on the planet have access to the body knowledge we have accumulated over the past few thousand years. The answer came with the printing press to distribute knowledge that was in the hands of a few elite but the answer today is getting everyone an affordable broadband connection to the Internet. Let's make sure that its affordable for the lowest 20% of income earners.I have been working for the past 15 years carrying out research on technologies that have the potential to provide access to poorly connected regions. I have been humbled by the tenacity and resilience of rural communities in Zambia and South Africa that have maintained wireless networks in rural villages and townships in spite of unsurmountable odds. To amplify the capability of communities to grow affordable connectivity, we need to open up more free wireless spectrum and provide more open source connectivity solutions to stimulate unfettered creativity in this space.I have helped design and build South Africa's first rural wireless mesh network, built an indoor 49 radio wireless mesh simulator (one of 3 in the world), published widely on mesh networks, rural connectivity and Internet architecture for rural or poorly serviced areas often trapped behind slow Internet links.My current interests lie in building community networks, hosting our own cloud servers in community-owned networks and using abandoned or unused frequency bands that can be shared for Internet connectivity in hard-to-reach places - TV frequencies (white spaces) being the current best examples of this. This field is growing and I think this is just the beginning of a wave of changes that will rock the way we have managed wireless spectrum essentially trapped in 1930s thinking.http://people.cs.uct.ac.za/~djohnson/ (Personal Website)
Listed skills include Linux, Python, C++, Machine Learning, and 20 others.
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13 roles · 31 years
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Chief Research Officer
CurrentWorking with an awesome team at the Vernonburg group who's mission is to support governments, companies, non-profits, and other organizations develop and implement regulatory regimes, programming, business models, and technologies that could be used to eliminate the digital divide.
Jan 2021 - Present
Adjunct Associate Professor
Current
Apr 2023 - Present
Jan 2015 - Apr 2023
Senior Research Associate
Current
Sep 2020 - Present
Independent Consultant
CurrentConsulting on spectrum and broadband policy and technology in South Africa – my most recent efforts being working through the complexities of building a community network in a township in Cape Town (http://inethi.org.za), modelling and writing recommendations for future high demand spectrum for the new Wireless Open Access Network (WOAN), and contributing to the finalised South African TV white space regulation.
Jan 2019 - Present
Visiting It Policy Fellow
I'll be carrying out research on the intersection of technology and policy with some world leaders. I'll be exploring how blockchain-based wireless networks can possibly incentivize growth of community owned networks.
Aug 2019 - Jun 2020
Director
Ammbr Research Labs South Africa
Led a team developing mesh and blockchain solutions for the Ammbrtech group. Helped develop some of the early prototypes of the Ammbr mesh radios.
May 2018 - Dec 2018
Principle Researcher
Meraka Institute, Csir
R&D in white space technology for the South African market
Mar 2013 - Mar 2018
Phd Researcher
Moment Lab, University Of California, Santa Barbara
Research on bringing Internet connectivity to rural villages
2008 - 2013
~5 yrs
Senior Researcher
Meraka Institute, Csir
Leading a group of reseachers in the field of wireless mesh networking for rural regions
2006 - 2008
~2 yrs
Sport Telemetry
African Advanced Institute For Information & Communication Technology, Csir
Sport tracking, Embedded systems
2000 - 2006
~6 yrs
Software Developer
Icomtek, Csir
Built client /server applications to manage CSIRs research investment
1996 - 2000
~4 yrs
5 education records
David Johnson education
Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Computer Science
Master'S Degree, Computer Science
Master'S Degree, Computer Engineering, Distinction
Bachelor'S Degree, Electrical And Electronics Engineering
Education record
Pretoria Boys High School
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David Johnson works for The Vernonburg Group.
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David Johnson is listed as Chief Research Officer at The Vernonburg Group.
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David Johnson is based in City of Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa while working with The Vernonburg Group.
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David Johnson has worked for The Vernonburg Group, University Of Cape Town, Research Ict Africa, Ellipsis Regulatory Solutions, and Princeton University.
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David Johnson holds Doctor Of Philosophy (Phd), Computer Science from University Of California, Santa Barbara.
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David Johnson is listed with skills including Linux, Python, C++, Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Signal Processing, Software Development, and Wireless.
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