My ICT4D Postcard from Wuse Market in Abuja, Nigeria
Dear Mom,
Whenever you hear of how poor, hungry, or desperate Africa is, I want you to think of this photo. This is innovation happening in real time in Nigeria. Two teenagers have a business with a laptop and an SD card reader. They take DVD movies people buy in the market and convert them to digital format. Why? Because few have DVD players but many have mobile phones, and these two found opportunity moving data from one to the other.
Replicate this over a country, a continent, and believe that Africa is not a basket case, nor makers of just baskets. Africa is dynamic and money is being made everywhere.
Love, Wayan
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Brilliant Wayan – good reminder that ingenuity is universal and hope (or commerce) springs eternal.
Your cranium must be protecting some very valubale brains.