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Nairobi, Kenya: New incubator http://metta.co/#visit could be a good source of contacts and interviewees. Rangoon, Myanmar: A scene is forming now that internet and mobile phones have become widely available and affordable. Vietnam: Lots of startups.
Thanks for the info. That Myanmar angle is intriguing. What is the best way to reach you for a quick chat?
South Africa is fascinating - contrasting bad news and great innovation. Although there have been setbacks from recent government shenanigans the wheels of law are turning (albeit slowly) and the ruling Zuma faction is daily facing more and more resistance. In the meantime the weak rand makes SA cheap, and their interesting ideas enter the world market. Amazon has a strong presence in SA - and (this is generally a li…
India | Telecom | 110M subscribers on-boarded in 100 days To summarize: Jio, which is our cellular telephony play, now is the world's largest cellular data network (pumping 22,000 TB per day) and onboards a million customers a day! We now have 110 million subscribers (in ~100 days). This became possible when the telco regulators here gave a go ahead to use the Govt of India's pet biometric auth project Aadhaar[1] to…
Wow - those stats are definitely impressive. What's the best way to reach you? Would love to talk more about this.
India | Telecom | 110M subscribers on-boarded in 100 days To summarize: Jio, which is our cellular telephony play, now is the world's largest cellular data network (pumping 22,000 TB per day) and onboards a million customers a day! We now have 110 million subscribers (in ~100 days). This became possible when the telco regulators here gave a go ahead to use the Govt of India's pet biometric auth project Aadhaar[1] to…
Holy shit are those numbers real? 1M paying subscribers added a day? I'm guessing this is prepay with cards / top ups right? If so the cash play becomes amazing too.
http://www.economist.com/news/business/21718495-jios-100m-ne...
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This blog post from Google engineer Neil Fraser made the rounds 4 years ago: https://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/03/16/ He traveled to Vietnam and observed a high quality Computer Science education in primary / secondary school. Talking about grade 11 scholars, he wrote: After returning to the US, I asked a senior engineer how he'd rank this question on a Google interview. Without knowing the source of the question, h…
TBH, I think I would expect grade 11 students the world over to be able to answer the question on display.
I have seen university students in my German CS classes struggle to implement breadth-first search; I would by highly surprised if an average grade 11 student could write a program to compute the connected components of a maze in less than 45 minutes.
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This blog post from Google engineer Neil Fraser made the rounds 4 years ago: https://neil.fraser.name/news/2013/03/16/ He traveled to Vietnam and observed a high quality Computer Science education in primary / secondary school. Talking about grade 11 scholars, he wrote: After returning to the US, I asked a senior engineer how he'd rank this question on a Google interview. Without knowing the source of the question, h…
TBH, I think I would expect grade 11 students the world over to be able to answer the question on display.
Jio is already covered in previous comments
Malaysia
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TBH, I think I would expect grade 11 students the world over to be able to answer the question on display.
Where are you from? I have seen university students in my German CS classes struggle to implement breadth-first search; I would by highly surprised if an average grade 11 student could write a program to compute the connected components of a maze in less than 45 minutes.