Fibertime: Alan Knott-Craig

Alan Knott-Craig is a successful entrepreneur, author and founder of Fibertime.com, a company that works to bridge the digital divide in Africa by bringing prepaid fiber internet to townships.

Originally from Pretoria, he studied at Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (formerly UPE) and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte in 2002.  Since starting his first business in 2003, he's founded or funded 21 businesses in the tech industry, including Cellfind,iburst,Mxit and HeroTel.

In 2013, he founded Project Isizwe, a non-profit organization that brings internet to township schools.  He has published ten books since 2008, including a national bestseller, Don't panic, a global history of telecommunications, and a memoir called Life Lessons: How to Fail and Win.

He was named as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2009.  He was also included in "100 Choiseul Africa", a list of top 100 young African business leaders in 2014,2015 and 2016, and nominated as the 2015 ICT Personality of the Year by ITWeb.
He has been nominated by Entrepreneur Magazine as one of the top eleven entrepreneurs changing the African landscape.