@udemesamuel wrote:
So Andela was funded and then Mark Zuckerberg made his announcement, in it this content stuck my mind to comment from the soul.
I was lucky to be born in a wealthy country where I had access to computers and the internet. If I had been born somewhere else, I'm not sure I would have been able to start Facebook -- or at least it would have taken a lot longer and been more difficult. Mark Zuckerberg
Mark Zuckerberg nice work with facebook, you have no idea what it means to be developer from africa talk less of an entrepreneur from Africa (Nigeria), because you never grew up here, have never been there and may never be. Opportunities is scarce here, No electricity, No water, High cost of internet (These are no excuses, this is reality). In simple terms everything around you will literally kill you as a developer from this part of the world http://cnn.it/1EvSIoA or my version http://bit.ly/1Uc8FsL , I don't see new developers surviving well from Nigeria my country i see a few at a broader scale, instead why not use your influence to introduce Modern Computer skills, programming into universities, polytechnics and most especially colleges of education, that will have a greater impact on the local tech ecosystem and at a broader view Fortune 500 companies, in other issues i dont support the facebook free basics,
First of all telcos are still charging to use facebook or other included services offerings, so where is the free in the access.
Secondly what are you doing to include the local tech startups to the free basics because your service is disrupting some local startups services.
All the same Facebook is cool and a new digital culture and innovation is having a greater application here in africa than in silicon valley. you can continue the conversation on radar you will meet same like local developers http://bit.ly/24UXTMF, it is a challenge if you will gladly accept (Let us wish he will come to radar).
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