Kenyan Women Create Their Own 'Geek Culture'
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#2Beautiful :)
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#3Complete with what looks like a Kanban board on the wall. There is going to be plenty of competition in a decade or so! But then there are plenty of local problems to solve...
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#4Projects like this make me hopeful :)
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#5Projects like this make me hopeful :)
Projects like this make me hopeful for the world, but fretful for America. Not because of the increased competition or outsourcing or anything like that, but because by and large we've created a political climate where large infrastructure developments are nearly impossible to implement. We eschew any sort of tax-funded large digital infrastructure projects while at the same time we do our best to keep regional ISP monopolies in place, killing any meaningful competition.
The fact that Kenya now has hundreds of miles of fiber optic cable is awesome. The fact that most of the internet I use in the USA ends up last-mile-ing over coaxial lines laid in the 1970s is terrible and unlikely to change in the next 10 years.
(Of course, our non-digital infrastructure is crumbling for largely the same reasons, so that's even more stuff to worry about).
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#6Man, the tenacity (on the part of both parties) demonstrated in this statement is amazing:
"When he came home for the holidays, he would haul his entire workstation in the car back with him — the monitor, the CPU, the keyboard, the mouse — and set it up in Oguya's living room. Oguya was 15."
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#7Stories like this can give you a lot of hope for the developing world.
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#8I so wish I could invest in some of these companies...
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#9BTW, thanks for posting that OP
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#10Man, the tenacity (on the part of both parties) demonstrated in this statement is amazing: "When he came home for the holidays, he would haul his entire workstation in the car back with him — the monitor, the CPU, the keyboard, the mouse — and set it up in Oguya's living room. Oguya was 15."
Bah, we routinely did this for our lan parties.