Someone reading this should see your pain as opportunity for innovation. Solar power, portable mesh networks for distributed computing at a local neighbourhood level, when you are able to take snapshots of the Internet (here Google could help out...where are the big techs why are they not helping emerging talent?!).
Hardware & software charities to help provide access to laptops and computer equipment so many of us western cultured people upgrade out laptops yearly usually when we don't need to for years so those same 'obsolete' laptops could be the key to the next innovator.
And lastly Africa as a whole has immense talent how do I know this? Time and again my African brothers & sisters have had to use limited resources, often facing steep challenges like you described and still being able to think through those problems to come up with solutions.
Bottom line get investing in IoT, cheap to build and obtain (relatively speaking), build solar powered hubs and create a mesh network that self heals and then get some data storage and fill up that knowledge base my friend!
This was really insightful and it reminded me of my conversation with a friend I met here, Sebastian. We are currently trying to work out the plans for this. I would also love to ask if there was a way to have people donate some of their “obsolete” laptop as it would be very helpful for a lot of newbie developers. I could draft out a plan for that if you’re willing to discuss further about this so that we help people while putting the first plan in progress.
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Someone reading this should see your pain as opportunity for innovation. Solar power, portable mesh networks for distributed computing at a local neighbourhood level, when you are able to take snapshots of the Internet (here Google could help out...where are the big techs why are they not helping emerging talent?!).
Hardware & software charities to help provide access to laptops and computer equipment so many of us western cultured people upgrade out laptops yearly usually when we don't need to for years so those same 'obsolete' laptops could be the key to the next innovator.
And lastly Africa as a whole has immense talent how do I know this? Time and again my African brothers & sisters have had to use limited resources, often facing steep challenges like you described and still being able to think through those problems to come up with solutions.
Bottom line get investing in IoT, cheap to build and obtain (relatively speaking), build solar powered hubs and create a mesh network that self heals and then get some data storage and fill up that knowledge base my friend!
Good luck and God bless 🙏🏽
This was really insightful and it reminded me of my conversation with a friend I met here, Sebastian. We are currently trying to work out the plans for this. I would also love to ask if there was a way to have people donate some of their “obsolete” laptop as it would be very helpful for a lot of newbie developers. I could draft out a plan for that if you’re willing to discuss further about this so that we help people while putting the first plan in progress.