Roger Hislop as a senior research engineer at Internet Solutions (IS), a Johannesburg-based pan-African Internet and Cloud services company, focused predominantly on the enterprise and carrier market.
He is an electrical engineer that started in industrial control systems before moving into technology-focused media and corporate communications in the Middle East and South Africa. After a decade of this, he returned to his engineering roots in the Research & Innovation and Product Engineering teams at IS, looking at long-term business and technology innovation, with a particular interest in new generations of networking technologies, in particular ultra-narrowband radio for IoT applications and cognitive radio for Dynamic Spectrum Allocation.
He serves on the Wireless Application Providers Association (wapa.org.za) executive committee, promoting the use of low-cost wireless technology as a driver of economic and social progress.