Thursday, March 13, 2008

The African Hacker


With home-brewed code and a little help from Microsoft, a programmer in Ghana launches Africa's first software empire. [read more]

It's so cool to see how in the face of various obstacles in Ghana e.g. unreliable power supplies, outdated computers, poorly educated users and rampant piracy, this entrepreneur and his team have ingeniously written software that is, in their words, "tropically tolerant". Culturally relevant techniques that successfully adapt their way around these tricky social tangles. :)

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