It began in Nairobi, kenya, where the mobile development created the world’s first-established, the system of mobile money transfer. In the wake of this revolution, a number of small companies are up, and soon it was born, the name of the ”Silicon Savannah”.

to be written on the boom in Kenya, africa until after south Africa, has picked up the gauntlet, and the use of the ‚Silicon Cape‘ to describe a similar situation in Cape town.

In Ethiopia, we have ”the Sheba Valley”, and in kigali, Rwanda writes, propagandaorganet the New Times how the ”kLab” it is a place where ”the dreams of floating in the air like a giant hot-air balloons, dreams come true, which is literally visible to the young people, and of the geeks”.

In the silence, the real monster, ”Yabacon of the Valley”, has grown in its 20-miljonersmetropolen the atlantic ocean.

In the majority of cases, the names have arisen as a tongue-in-cheek winks to the original, the one in California, but they have been picked up by politicians who want to associate themselves with the sector. With the theme ‚ information technology in growth,” the leaders appear to have a solution to the global societal challenge in Africa: job creation for young people, in an environment with poorly developed infrastructure.

it has, at best, indirectly benefited the sector, poor public services, has created a demand for the service as new technology has made possible. Mobile money, first in Africa, ahead of those in Europe, the absence of a consolidated banking sector, which was able to maintain existing positions. To the world of cell phones prior to this, succeeded so well was because of the state telephone company had given up efforts to roll out fixed-line telephony to the masses.

In a worst-case scenario, and of those, there are plenty of those, they have only shown interest in it, and when the technology could be misused. , in order to strengthen their own power. To beat the traffic, a kind of virtual ground for the whole of the population, it has become the norm in the autokrater who is concerned about the interests of the masses. The ethiopian regime still has the monopoly on voice telephony, and has been repeatedly turned off down the connections, thankfully, on fewer occasions in recent years. In Uganda, the government seeks to quell opposition by taxing the use of social media. In Rwanda the spying of the government on its own citizens, through trojan horses which are sent to unsuspecting mobile phone users.

the Internet has been around in various forms in different parts of the world since the late 1990s (think of the year in which you received your first Nigeriabrev of the e-mails), but it was not until the smartphone revolution, it has received wide circulation. Now it’s time for the politicians to take action.

far and wide about the fourth industrial revolution as well as the potential for job creation, which is to be opened. However, his voters just want to know when the government is going to impose a price cap on the datapriserna, as of today, may be multiplied by five is higher than in the uk.

the Lower datapriser was going to be as crucial as aid and home pc-this project was for the Swedish it-wonder. Substantially the height of import taxes on electronic waste could be utilized to lower the tariff on brand new electronics.

the Operators, who can reasonably be accused of forming a cartel when it comes to the datapriserna, will have to swallow a roof during a protest, as the market is predicted to grow steadily for the foreseeable future.

”frog-hop” is a phenomenon where you catch up with the outside world, not part of technology development: Africa jumped from no telephony at all, to cell phones, from computers to smartphones, from no internet to mobile broadband internet access.

and Here, governments are responsible for setting up the trampolines, and do not elevate the ribs.

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