I believe the best way of dealing with the starvation problem in Africa (or anywhere else) is to provide the workers with the skills to compete in the high technology employment marketplace. Smartphones are a good way to provide low cost access to web-based training.
Africa cannot afford the cost of providing wired access to the Internet; providing wireless access is orders of magnitude less expensive than trying to wire up the entire continent.
I would hope that an initiative like this would encourage others (like Mozilla with their lower cost, more open smartphone projects) to try to help provide Africa with better, less expensive Internet access.
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I believe the best way of dealing with the starvation problem in Africa (or anywhere else) is to provide the workers with the skills to compete in the high technology employment marketplace. Smartphones are a good way to provide low cost access to web-based training.
Africa cannot afford the cost of providing wired access to the Internet; providing wireless access is orders of magnitude less expensive than trying to wire up the entire continent.
I would hope that an initiative like this would encourage others (like Mozilla with their lower cost, more open smartphone projects) to try to help provide Africa with better, less expensive Internet access.