Spent yesterday at gKenya, the google event. It was quite amazing to learn that there's more mobile browsing (in terms of page views) in Africa than in Western Europe. We're at the forefront of a revolution (as the whole MPESA experience has already shown.
During the presentation, I got a text about the fire at Sinai slums with over 100 dead. People were scooping the spilled petrol and haven't seemed to learn (despite numerous deadly examples) that petrol vapor is explosive.
It makes no sense that the same part of the world that is so far ahead in some ways is still so far behind in others. I studied economics but it's still puzzling why we can't seem to address the most basic issues of poverty and ignorance even as we forge ahead on so many other fronts.
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