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Post by Her Highness on Dec 25, 2015 6:14:09 GMT
Now the real question is, should Nigerians in ICT try to collab with these great innovators? esp the ones in Kenya. N ot neccessarily
We're doing well and I believe we can compete with Kenya.The only thing is Kenya is investing a lot more in ICT than we're doing
The only thing Naija is thinking about for now is OilDon't you think a healthy collaboration is better than competition in tech, esp in Africa?
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Post by Shymmex on Dec 25, 2015 12:20:46 GMT
I'm loving this.
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Post by omohayek on Dec 26, 2015 8:44:52 GMT
There are a lot more talented people who could be doing interesting things in Nigeria, but who are held back by ridiculous constraints people in better-managed countries would never have to deal with. How can one be expected to compete when your coding can be interrupted at any time by a power cut, you constantly have to worry about your office being broken into and your computers stolen, and you never know how long it will take you to get to work because of fuel shortages? How do you do business successfully with foreign companies when you can't rent capacity on Amazon Web Services because the CBN has decided to block most forex transactions? Could a Facebook, an AirBnB or a Spotify take off in an environment like this?
What makes me so angry about the whole solution is that none of the problems I've mentioned are particularly difficult to solve. The only problem is that (with the possible exception of Obasanjo) Nigeria's leaders have always been either economically illiterate and/or too focused on looting to care. Nigeria is a prison-house for talent.
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