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

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Post by avh02 »

carlmungz wrote: post #56
avh02 wrote: post #2

Some stuff happening in Lebanon with government incentives and whatnot (and an educated but undervalued tech workforce). personally I've left that all behind me but I can probably find people you want to talk to if you want to talk to them. something you may be interested in as an index to some stuff the central bank is trying: http://bdlaccelerate.com/2016/ The Guardian's chips with everything covered some of it rec…

I'm happy to chat with people who have a deeper understanding of Lebanon. My Middle East show was more of a general overview of the region. I'm hoping to dig deeper into some of the stories I've come across. Do you have Twitter?

not a very active user but will get notifications: @ahayrabedian, email's firstname.lastname@gmail.com (you can gather those fields from the twitter profile :) )

I mean, like i said, i've kind of left that behind me (only worked there for a year), but i can definitely put you in touch with people who are more up to speed.

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Post by carlmungz »

pjmlp wrote: post #60
carlmungz wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When did you last visit?

A couple of months ago. I didn't do much though, just had to drive around the area.

Ah, right. Have you any connections in the country?

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Post by carlosgg »

A while back I read this article on Iranian startups:

https://www.bloomberg.com/politics/articles/2015-05-05/start...

Also found this:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2014/11/1...

https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-top-startups-in-Iran

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Post by Ramiuz »

The scene in Chile it’s really interesting. There is a well nurtured ecosystem of startups going on right now, with programs like STARTUP-Chile, innova and JUMP. With funding coming from government and private parties, who invites anyone in the world (yes, you don’t need a Chilean nationality, only that your startup is based here).

Here are some links with more information, hope it helps:

http://www.economist.com/node/21564589 https://techcrunch.com/2016/10/16/a-look-into-chiles-innovat... http://www.startupchile.org/

p.s: SED it's a great podcast! ty!.

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

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Post by muggermuch »

mping wrote: post #62
OmIsMyShield wrote: post #35

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…

Reminds me of TheKeyboardCaper & Phrozen crew. Followed a tutorial on how to crack some Norton software via softice. Good old days :D

Yes! I remember reading TKC's tutorials as a teenager and being fascinated by his life story. I wonder what he's doing these days.

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Post by 8sigma »

erbdex wrote: post #19

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…

I will be downvoted for saying this: Most of the subscribers were issued 5 sims per aadhar number.In that sense its really around 20 million subscribers each with around 5 sims in their name.And anybody can be sure that they aren't using all the issued sims.Also most of the subscribers have stopped using the sims after the freebies was called off.

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

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Post by petercooper »

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.

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Post by Lordarminius »

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.

> I'm seeing quite a few Nigerians becoming prominent in the JavaScript space as well. I didn't realize English was so prevalent there...

And Ruby as well. Don't overlook Ruby!

Anyway, English is the official language of Nigeria

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Post by Lordarminius »

mekicha wrote: post #31
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…

Nigerian techies are making great strides in the sector, overcoming challenges the environment and the system poses on them to shine among their peers. Great efforts have been made in the ecommerce and fintech sectors, but I will also like to mention Andela( https://andela.com/what-we-do/ ) which is doing a great job training and exposing African tech talents to the outside world. There are other platforms of that na…

I'll be contentious here.

Andela's business model is to scout for young talent and train them as developers. They rent them out to companies in the developed world essentially exploiting the gap in wages that exists between the West and Africa. Not bad in the sense that it gives young people a job and exposure, but hardly an innovative idea and not a startup if you go by the common understanding of the term .

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Post by frankzinger »

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…

> 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.

I think you meant Jumia instead of Joomla, and it's also a Nigerian company. The South African company that seems to usually be mentioned in the same breath as these two and Amazon is Takealot.com which is a South African company.

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