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Tech Scene in Africa?


What's the tech scene in Africa? Any personal experiences?


  👤 Woadray Accepted Answer ✓
From Madagascar here, and it sucks.

- There are other problems to solve before getting there (Food, housing, education and so on ...). Take banking for example, where only around 30% of adults have bank accounts.

- Hardware price is way too high for a poor population. And if you have access to hardware it probably is some random cheap slow Chinese computer/phone if you're not top 1%.

- Networks/Internet are ok in big towns, it improves fast compared to everything else though, IF you can pay. 55 bucks for 100 Mbps up/down, that's 1 month minimum wage on paper (majority still earn less).