Dave Duarte
Dave Duarte is an internet and mobile media educator and entrepreneur. He holds several senior positions in the academic, commercial, and non-profit sectors.
He is Managing Director at Huddlemind. The company consults to numerous multinational corporations to provide education and research as well as collaborative online learning platforms.
He is founder and programme director of two Executive Education courses: Nomadic Marketing and Mobile Marketing at the University of Cape Town (UCT) Graduate School of Business. He also lectures on the Executive MBA programme at UCT GSB.
Dave’s other appointments include:
- Dean of the Digital Media Faculty at The Maharishi Institute of Management (a free university founded by Taddy Blecher, and endorsed by international icons such as Bill Clinton, Oprah Winfrey, Richard Branson and the Dalai Lama)
- Community Officer of Silicon Cape, a well supported initiative involving leaders in business and government to help develop the Western Cape into a global hub of high-tech innovation excellence.
- He is Public Lead for Creative Commons (CC) South Africa (CC is a non-profit that offers a set of free customizable digital licenses that have been applied more than 300 million times globally)
- Co-founder and Director of the 27dinner (a free monthly event that runs nationally on the 27th of every month)
- Weekly slot on GoodhopeFM, Thursday 6-7pm commentating on Technology and Lifestyle
Dave won the “Best Business Blog” category at the 2009 SA Blog Awards.
He was runner up for Innovator of the Year in the 2007 African ICT Achiever Awards.
He is rated as one of the Top 100 Most Influential Media
and Advertising people
in South Africa by Jeremy Maggs in “The
Annual“.
Contact
Email: dave@huddlemind.com
Blog: www.daveduarte.co.za
Twitter: www.twitter.com/daveduarte
Office: 021 433 0886