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Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)


From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2018 16:38:46 +0200



On 29/May/18 16:16, John R. Levine wrote:


My goodness, aren't we condescending.  Since we're talking about Kenya
here, a few milliseconds of research reminds us that it's a
significant agricultural exporter.  Agricultural development there is
generally about better use of existing land.

You might also want to learn about M-Pesa, the mobile phone payment
system that everybody uses.  Stores all have a sign with their M-Pesa
number so you can pay them, and there are kiosks all over Nairobi that
will exchange M-Pesa credit and cash.  The 1GB data bundles I
mentioned are large ones. You can get 7MB for a day or 5MB for a week
for 5c, which is plenty to check your messages or look up farm prices.

People in Africa may be poorer than we are, but they are just as smart
as we are, and they are just as able and interested in technology when
it is useful to them.

It's pretty difficult to articulate this sort of thing unless someone
has actually traveled to and experienced a destination, and its peoples,
on their own.

Having had the opportunity to travel the world over the past 2 or more
decades, I've been eagerly disillusioned by what I thought a lot of
countries were either capable of, or not capable of. What I learned...
you can't armchair reality.

The Internet in Indonesia is the very same Internet in Eritrea, as it is
in Canada. We can't quite split that...

Mark.


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