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

Post by frankzinger » Sun, May 14, 2017, 4:38 AM UTC

Lordarminius wrote: post #95

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Wikipedia says[1] Jumia is headquartered in Lagos and also: In 2012, Jumia Group was launched with the support of Rocket Internet, MTN, and Millicom. In March 2016, Jumia Group secured over €300M of funding from MTN, Rocket Internet, AXA, Goldman Sachs, Orange and CDC [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jumia

Well wouldn't be the first time Wikipedia would be inaccurate. Tunde Kehinde and Raphael Afaedor started Jumia in 2012 and got bought out c.2014. It belongs to Rocket Internet now long with its partners. HQ is in Berlin, Germany. https://www.rocket-internet.com/companies/jumia

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Post by dermybaby » Tue, May 16, 2017, 2:24 PM UTC

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I have not really followed the fintech much but understand the Telecom side of things. You seem like an expert on this space in India and hence my questions: 1. Do you think making everything Aadhar based is a good idea? 2. How much awareness is there about privacy issues related to Aadhar? 3. What risk do you see which would derail the $500B projection for Fintech in India? Also it wasn't clear if that projection wa…

A particular section (to which I belong) is quite afraid with the direction India is taking. Reddit /r/india has many discussions along lines that I'll summarize. - Aadhar was forced into being without legislation or check/balances. - The guy heading it is Nilekani, a not so ethical dude, who once ran Infy, and has quite a lot of influence with the right people, both in the US and India.[1] - Previous admin. was like…

Post by buritica » Wed, May 17, 2017, 5:47 PM UTC

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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…

Hey would love to chat with you about replicating this model in other developing countries. What's the best way to reach out?

Post by throwaway68655 » Thu, May 18, 2017, 8:51 AM UTC

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It should be noted that this was achieved by giving 6 months of 4G data (1GB/day at > 6Mbps) + free telephony, for a mere $6. Things should normalize once the freebies stop; Jio however will have a massive collection of Indians Biometric identities (and much else skimmed off of "Big Brother" Aadhar) and their browsing habits, which we currently have no idea how they'll exploit. Worse, we have no regulation over Aadha…

> Jio however will have a massive collection of Indians Biometric identities Citation or shut up. I'm no fan of Aadhar but even a cursory look into it's authentication shows that it does not share this information with services. It only acts as a o-auth like service.