Decentralise Everything!!!!
How Africa Can Leapfrog Development with Distributed Ledger Technologies
Being in the deep countryside of Ogun State, Nigeria got me thinking. The same thoughts that I have whenever I (now increasingly) travel interstate around Nigeria either by rail or road.
Huge swathes of tundra, forest, desert etc. Nature in its purest form. But technology must be embedded into the natural to get a sum product that is 'more'. Assuming (based on ‘liberal’ population estimates - that i have questioned in a prior post you can read here) there are 10s, if not 100s, of thousands of people living across the horizon of these rural areas - without connection to the internet. How can they be (realistically) brought online and become part of the global digital economy? This is the the root question that underpins (or should underpin) every tech-enabled idea/solution that has been developed since the initial Nigerian tech boom in the early 2010s - and even before that with the Telco monopolies.
The telecommunications and technology history of Africa over…