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Re: Ask HN: Which developing nations have interesting tech stories at the moment?

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Post by nileshtrivedi »

sandGorgon wrote: post #38

India Fintech - the whole country was demonetized in November and there is a serious push to making the whole country cashless. This is a serious challenge in a country where e-commerce was predominantly cash-on-delivery. To power this through, it's leveraging the new fangled Aadhaar infrastructure - which is kind of like "social security number with biometric data" and is triggering this huge polarising debate on pr…

> the whole country was demonetized

Some currency notes were declared as "no more legal tender". There was no demonetization. And it makes no sense to say that "the whole country was demonetized". :-)

Re: Ask HN: Which developing nations have interesting tech stories at the moment?

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Post by carlmungz »

hallman76 wrote: post #104

the Other Valleys newsletter[0] may be of interest. Their description: "Creative/technology-related news and ideas, that are by and large NOT from the US/UK/EU. Inspiration can strike from many other places (the multiple Other Valleys spread across the world), and I like to know about them. Now you can too." [0] http://tinyletter.com/othervalleys

Nice resource - thanks!

Re: Ask HN: Which developing nations have interesting tech stories at the moment?

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hallman76 wrote: post #104

the Other Valleys newsletter[0] may be of interest. Their description: "Creative/technology-related news and ideas, that are by and large NOT from the US/UK/EU. Inspiration can strike from many other places (the multiple Other Valleys spread across the world), and I like to know about them. Now you can too." [0] http://tinyletter.com/othervalleys

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Re: Ask HN: Which developing nations have interesting tech stories at the moment?

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Post by carlmungz »

buritica wrote: post #93

In Colombia, we've gone from having no OSS Dev communities, to 5 world class confs in about 7 yrs, and many (local meetups ( http://colombia-dev.org/meetups ) thanks to the work of volunteers and community organizers. We're trying to get a way from the first thing that comes to mind when you think about our country (even though Netflix is making harder for us, lol). More than happy to talk about how it's been done, a…

Yes, would be happy to get in touch. Am I right in thinking you're Juan Pablo Buritica?

Re: Ask HN: Which developing nations have interesting tech stories at the moment?

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Post by carlmungz »

petercooper wrote: post #77
TheHeasman wrote: post #21

There's some pretty exciting stuff happening in the startup scene in Nigeria, most famously Zuckerberg's PR visit to Lagos a few months ago. Konga (a Nigerian company) is trying to upset Joomla (a South African company) to become the Amazon of Africa, and co-working spaces are starting to sprout all over the place. There are over a hundred different mobile payment solutions, not just in the micro-payment sector, but…

I'm seeing quite a few Nigerians becoming prominent in the JavaScript space as well. I didn't realize English was so prevalent there but having a pretty well developed economy and speaking English makes me think there's a lot of good stuff to come from Nigeria.

A lot of African nations speak a decent to very good level of English. My home country of Zimbabwe has one of the highest literacy rates on the continent. I'm not sure about now but I know our education system used to mirror quite closely that of the UK in terms of curriculum, exam material etc.

Re: Ask HN: Which developing nations have interesting tech stories at the moment?

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Post by bullshy »

cd_1999 wrote: post #110
bullshy wrote: post #105

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There isn't such thing as Apartheid (racial discrimination) in the middle east. Though there are soaring up terrorism trends. Where a minority governs its own people and teaches them to kill the other side. I want again to bless my brother, who, I assume, is an arab and tell him that in order to fight for a better future and better world we need more people to do good rather than bad.

Apartheid: When you occupy/hold power for decades in a territory and you don't give the same rights (such as voting) to about 50% of the population.

Are we talking about the west bank? They have voting right. Both HAMAS and Abas were elected democratically. Keeping saying Apartheid over and over doesn't make it true.

Anyways, hopefully we will see a better age soon and people will live harmony or TAIUSH in arabic.

Re: Ask HN: Which developing nations have interesting tech stories at the moment?

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Post by gfredtech »

vram22 wrote: post #85
carlmungz wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My first SE Daily interview was with one of the co-founders of mymookh.com. Kenya is definitely a leading nation in the mobile payments space.

M-Pesa, which may have first been created there (not sure, just read of it used there first), is now in India too.

yes, as well as Bitpesa

Re: Ask HN: Which developing nations have interesting tech stories at the moment?

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Post by vram22 »

gfredtech wrote: post #118
vram22 wrote: post #85

Earlier quoted context omitted.

M-Pesa, which may have first been created there (not sure, just read of it used there first), is now in India too.

yes, as well as Bitpesa

Interesting, hadn't heard of that one.
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