Comments on: 3 Localized Ideas for African Web Developers

By: Gituma

Gituma — Tue, 09 Oct 2007 09:02:40 +0000

Good points
particularly the pricing site to save us from that awful business of window shopping.
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By: Johnny Brooks

Johnny Brooks — Thu, 04 Oct 2007 07:55:09 +0000

A site dedicated to real estate would be great, especialy if it listed more locales than just Nairobi. Just recently I was searching for a house to start an orphanage in and had much difficulty. You can go to an agent, but he is only going to show you houses belonging to his clients. And in the context of Nakuru I would rather deal directly with the owner of the house.

By: riyaz

riyaz — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:00:07 +0000

nice 🙂

This actually ties in with something we’re building – a wiki page called “The Idea Portal” – basically it’s a portal of all the ideas we get, but can’t implement for various reasons. I’ll link to this.

Publicizing them will hopefully get other people with ability to implement some of these good ideas.

Neville – I so believe the social side is the main route to growing out local content. Right on.

By: Josiah

Josiah — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 12:51:56 +0000

In terms of saving high cost of international satellite bandwidth. I had some thoughts.

Does local content mean site relevant to a particular location, or does it mean that the site is physically hosted at a particular location or both.

ISPs could potentially save international bandwidth costs by aggressively promoting creation of local content, hosted locally. With a critical mass of locally hosted websites, they would be able save costs by encouraging their clientÃ¨le to use local (locally hosted) websites which would typically be less costly to access.

This of course requires quality and affordable hosting services locally that are comparable to those offered abroad.

By: Neville Newey

Neville Newey — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 02:11:07 +0000

Some great ideas Erik. Since I am mostly interested in the social side of web apps what do your readers think of this idea: Get your users themselves to build up the database. So in your example of creating a price comparison site, let the users submit the data. For example, “I bought brand X at shop Y for price Z”. If there is mutual benefit in submitting accurate data then people will keep it accurate and now you have killed two birds with one stone.

By: JKE

JKE — Tue, 02 Oct 2007 23:55:05 +0000

Good points!

Local content is what generates traffic, and with narrowing international traffic that currently still depends on an expensive satellite connection, it’s just logical to come up with your own content within the local network.

As for that Nokia deal: hehehe…go, Nokia, go! Now they’ll only need to improve the firmware of their devices and get a serious team of “PC Suite” developers 🙂

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