Comments on: What is an African Mash-up?

By: John Powers

John Powers — Mon, 20 Mar 2006 01:14:03 +0000

The truth here is that as ingenious of an idea as John has had, it will pale in comparison with the ingenuity of â€œthe Africaâ€ once they get their hands on it.

Yes! I so agree with you Hash.

As an American it’s about time we appreciated that while the challenges people on the African continent face, their ingenuity is great too.

My local paper finally got around to covering the drought: in a caption to a photograph. One of the editors is a former State Department diplomat in various African countries and when he writes about African issues, he’s oh so politic. The whole “dark continenet” routine really distorts the picture.

We’re all on this “Spaceship Earth together.” It’s about time we start acting like it and have some fun while we’re at it.

[comment fixed by Hash]

By: Milonare

Milonare — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 08:57:38 +0000

Hi Hash

Thanks for dropping by.

Good stuff you’ve got here. The cell phone will definitely revolutionalise the way people interact, trade and live.

Let me download the pdf and have a squizz through it. Thanks for sharing!

By: HASH

HASH — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 04:08:25 +0000

My point exactly AfroM, this is a very important thing to remember when developing technology for Africa. If you keep this in mind, you realize that you need to build in tools to make this secondary market flourish. If I'm developing something technology related, I want the jua kali guys to embrace my ideas. I want web-fundis to be all over the place figuring out how to use it and make money from that knowledge.

By: afroM

afroM — Sun, 19 Mar 2006 03:00:56 +0000

This is an important fact, thank you for sharing. [especially noted is your classification under Strategy.] Will be sure to note this in some other ideas i have.