Arthur Goldstuck is a South African journalist, media analyst and commentator on Information and Communications Technology (ICT), Internet

Internet

The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...

 and mobile communications and technologies. He grew up in Trompsburg, Free State

Free State

The Free State is a province of South Africa. Its capital is Bloemfontein, which is also South Africa's judicial capital. Its historical origins lie in the Orange Free State Boer republic and later Orange Free State Province. The current borders of the province date from 1994 when the Bantustans...

, South Africa

South Africa

The Republic of South Africa is a country in southern Africa. Located at the southern tip of Africa, it is divided into nine provinces, with of coastline on the Atlantic and Indian oceans...

 and resides in Johannesburg

Johannesburg

Johannesburg also known as Jozi, Jo'burg or Egoli, is the largest city in South Africa, by population. Johannesburg is the provincial capital of Gauteng, the wealthiest province in South Africa, having the largest economy of any metropolitan region in Sub-Saharan Africa...

, South Africa.

Goldstuck led early research into the size of the Internet user population and the extent of Web commerce in South Africa, which established trend lines for Internet growth in the country.

Today Goldstuck heads the World Wide Worx research organization, and has led research into ICT issues like the impact of IT on small business, the role of mobile technologies in business and government and the technology challenges of the financial services sector.

From the beginning of 2009, both the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and Internetworldstats http://www.internetworldstats.com have used World Wide Worx statistics when providing Internet data for South Africa.

Goldstuck established the first benchmarks for web strategy and web site evaluation in South Africa, and leads a team of usability experts that advises on web site usability and strategy. He represented South Africa as a judge for the Interactive category of the Cannes International Advertising Festival in France

France

The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...

 in June 2002, and as a judge in the online category of the 2003 London

London

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 International Advertising Festival.

Goldstuck is the author of, among other works, South Africa’s best-selling IT book,The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet, as well as The Art of Business on the Internet. He has written five books on South African urban legends, and has contributed as a writer to numerous South African and international publications, including The Times

The Times

The Times is a British daily national newspaper, first published in London in 1785 under the title The Daily Universal Register . The Times and its sister paper The Sunday Times are published by Times Newspapers Limited, a subsidiary since 1981 of News International...

 of London and Billboard. He was winner of the online category in the Telkom ICT Journalist of the Year awards for 2003, and was runner-up in the lifestyle category for 2002 and the business magazine category in 2004.

He contributes to a number of South African publications on technology and business strategy issues, including the Radar column for African Communications magazine. He is editor of The Big Change, an electronic newsletter on business strategy in the high-tech economy, and of Gadget, the online consumer technology magazine. In 2007 Mail & Guardian invited Arthur Goldstuck to host his own blog on their Thought Leader service.

He also lectures at universities and other institutions on trends in technology and business strategy, and delivers presentations on his analysis of the technology environment at conferences and corporate events. He provided the closing keynote address for the Microsoft TechEd conference in Durban in August 2009, looking to the communications revolution of the next ten years.

Published books

• The Burglar in the Bin Bag ISBN 9780143026143 (2010)
• The Mobile Office ISBN 9780702179648 (2008)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Going Mobile ISBN 9781770131132 (2007)
• How to be buy a cellphone in South Africa ISBN 9781770131125 (2006) co-written by Steven Ambrose
• The Ghost that Closed Down the Town ISBN 0143025058 (2006)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to Going Wireless ISBN 1770130349 (2005)
• The Aardvark and the Caravan (1998)
• The South African Internet Services Directory (1997)
• Money Talks But Mine Just Says Goodbye (1997)
• The Art of Business on the Internet (1996)
• Never Play Leapfrog with a Unicorn (1996)
• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet (1995, 1996, 1998)
• Ink in the Porridge (1994)
• The Leopard in the Luggage (1993)
• Going Going Gone (1992) (with Rico Schacherl)
• The Rabbit in the Thorn Tree (1990)

External links

• World Wide Worx - Arthur Goldstuck's research company
• Arthur Goldstuck's blog
• Gadget online magazine
• Arthur Goldstuck's business strategy blog/newsletter
• In-depth interview with Arthur Goldstuck after release of The Ghost That Closed Down the Town
• Profile by Duncan McLeod in TechCentral: "Goldstuck, Internet legend, chases down his first novel"