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Comments on: Africa: problem or opportunity? http://blog.tech4africa.com/africa-problem-or-opportunity/ Musings, announcements, and collateral damage from Tech4Africa. Thoughts our own. We're looking for contributors from across Africa. Email hello At tech4africa DOT com. Wed, 14 Aug 2013 22:26:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.32 By: Gobezu http://blog.tech4africa.com/africa-problem-or-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-21 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 14:07:46 +0000 http://t4a.feedmybeta.com?p=855#comment-21 Nico, indeed. That actually probably sums up the whole aim of t4a, right?

But I am looking high and low for those best practices, and I just can’t see them…no where, many mentions and celebs and creds but no financial success…

No doubt I will hang on your wagon for as long as I can, and I myself have upcoming projects which in due time I hope will be featured somewhere here…

Salute

]]> By: NicoP http://blog.tech4africa.com/africa-problem-or-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-20 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:25:28 +0000 http://t4a.feedmybeta.com?p=855#comment-20 Thanks Gobezu for your contribution. Like you said, as many startups struggle to be sustainable and successful, a way to push it forward is by sharing best practices and getting inspired by others.

]]> By: NicoP http://blog.tech4africa.com/africa-problem-or-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-19 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 10:04:55 +0000 http://t4a.feedmybeta.com?p=855#comment-19 Thanks Francis for your opinion.

]]> By: Gobezu http://blog.tech4africa.com/africa-problem-or-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-18 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 08:10:41 +0000 http://t4a.feedmybeta.com?p=855#comment-18 just read the following post http://gurstein.wordpress.com/2010/09/02/open-data-empowering-the-empowered-or-effective-data-use-for-everyone/ which serves as good analogy and a cautionary tale about what not having a good understanding of your actual goals and the targeted market can render

]]> By: Gobezu http://blog.tech4africa.com/africa-problem-or-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-17 Tue, 07 Sep 2010 06:35:58 +0000 http://t4a.feedmybeta.com?p=855#comment-17 i really am confused, because however much we shout at it or about it, i fail to see good working vibrant examples of startups in africa, which i really have been looking after

the only rather successful internet related activity i see is mostly related to old paper based newspapers coming online

i went through all the startups listed in your sidebar and its really a depressing run throughout the list and i hardly think there is any thriving business behind those websites dwindling out there which either are not visited or riddled by spams or in some cases doesn’t even exist

i think we need to do some ground work before aiming for the sky and try to copy the success of western models, and i am not sure how well any western or for that matter asian success can be adpoted to africa, sure they should act as our role models but not to be copied possibly to be inspired by

i fully agree with your Erik Hersman quote, we really need to focus locally, and i really mean locally, because what works in south africa will probably not work in morocco or for that matter not in niger, chad nor somalia, the preconditions are simply not there

so lets not see africa as a homogen destination because it certainly is not, at least in this regard. fact is its even impossible to see one country in itself as a homogen destination as most western countries seem to be

…and simply therefore i really fail to excite myself on such notes as t4a and doesn’t sound to me as real, but hey, i am probably wrong, and would very much appreciate if anyone could show me the real success stories, thriving startups not supported by an ngo or side activities to support the main startups ideas….

applause all your efforts and is grateful….

]]> By: Francis http://blog.tech4africa.com/africa-problem-or-opportunity/comment-page-1/#comment-16 Mon, 06 Sep 2010 17:00:53 +0000 http://t4a.feedmybeta.com?p=855#comment-16 If we have systems that truly work and solve our problems internally this will help us gain more credibility in the global systems. I completely agree that we should see these problems as opportunities.

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