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Where Africa and Technology Collide!Fri, 21 Dec 2018 15:55:40 +0000hourly1https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.24By: Mama Mia
http://whiteafrican.com/2006/03/28/why-the-poor-remain-poor-in-africa/#comment-2051
Mon, 03 Apr 2006 16:51:34 +0000http://whiteafrican.com/?p=196#comment-2051so so so so true, especially the ‘why get an education’ bit. I have a friend who was tops nationwide in both primary and secondary school, got a good Uni degree, has loads of experience, but can’t get a job locally. Option to travel abroad isn’t there coz she’s married. Not sure where cleaning up the rot would start ….
]]>By: Global Voices Online » Blog Archive » Africa: Technology to aid the poor
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Thu, 30 Mar 2006 17:56:18 +0000http://whiteafrican.com/?p=196#comment-2050[…] White African firmly believes that technology and the free market can both be used to empower the poor in Africa. […]
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http://whiteafrican.com/2006/03/28/why-the-poor-remain-poor-in-africa/#comment-2049
Wed, 29 Mar 2006 17:01:25 +0000http://whiteafrican.com/?p=196#comment-2049Interesting article!
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http://whiteafrican.com/2006/03/28/why-the-poor-remain-poor-in-africa/#comment-2048
Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:55:08 +0000http://whiteafrican.com/?p=196#comment-2048Well, I’m not talking about it in the armed revolutionary sense necessarily. It’s more about how technology can be used to make monopolies and corruption irrelevant because they are simply bypassed.
Disruptive technologies have a way of throwing slow moving government beauracracies behind the power curve. They cannot change fast enough, they find themselves using old technology and practices while the rest of their populace rushes by.
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http://whiteafrican.com/2006/03/28/why-the-poor-remain-poor-in-africa/#comment-2047
Tue, 28 Mar 2006 19:08:10 +0000http://whiteafrican.com/?p=196#comment-2047Now there’s an idea worth pursuing. How can technology and people using it liberate the people from the government?
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