My take is that while there is significant uptake on the use of technology, in places like Nigeria, it is still used be an extremely small proportion of its 150 million people, and when used at all for the simplest of tasks – email, reading newspapers (and increasingly blogs).
The lag in governance is glaring, but the complete abscense of an online present by most arms of government is just as glaring. This morning the Nigerian Police reports that there is a fake Nigerian Police website out there…! I rest my case!
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With increase in bandwidth there is a huge opportunity for good and evil…who get in there first?
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