12 Facts About Arthur Goldstuck

Arthur Goldstuck was born on 1959 and is a South African author, journalist, speaker, media analyst and commentator on Information and Communications Technology, Internet and mobile communications and technologies.

Arthur Goldstuck was born and raised in Trompsburg, Free State, South Africa and resides in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Arthur 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.

Arthur Goldstuck represented South Africa as a judge for the Interactive category of the Cannes International Advertising Festival in France in June 2002, and as a judge in the online category of the 2003 London International Advertising Festival.

Arthur Goldstuck was the winner of the online category in the Telkom ICT Journalist of the Year awards for 2003, and publishes the online consumer technology magazine Gadget.

Arthur Goldstuck is author of 19 books, including South Africa's best-selling IT book, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Internet, and the seminal work on urban legends in South Africa, The Rabbit in the Thorn-Tree.

Arthur Goldstuck has written five other books on South African urban legends.

Arthur Goldstuck has had a number of science fiction short stories published, including "The Fabulous Yesterdays", set in a future Johannesburg, which appeared in the Probe fanzine, Internova: The Magazine of International Science Fiction, and in the South African edition of Playboy.

Arthur Goldstuck writes a weekly technology trends column for Business Times in the Sunday Times, South Africa's largest-circulation newspaper.

Arthur Goldstuck 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, and has given talks at both the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas and Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.

Arthur Goldstuck has been an international judge in the GSMA Global Mobile Awards in Barcelona and has judged the Vodacom Journalist of the Year Awards since 2011.

Arthur Goldstuck provides strategic guidance to corporate executives in their use of social media, and offers virtual training to companies worldwide.