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Re:Rwanda joins Kenya to initiate visa-free travel for all A... by tim333 on Saturday November 04, 2023 @09:25AM (#38140802)
Well, I've never been to Rwanda or know much about it but good luck to them. I quite liked the concept of being the Singapore of Africa having spent some time in actual Singapore and also Hong Kong which had a similar model to Singapore. Both those worked well although they both had strong rule of law and low corruption which often doesn't apply in Africa.

I'm sticking with my hypothesis that info tech will let Africa develop faster than most expect though. AI probably even more so.

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Re:Rwanda joins Kenya to initiate visa-free travel for all A... by alephnerd on Saturday November 04, 2023 @09:35PM (#38147110)
> that info tech will let Africa develop

I agree that ICT will help development massively, but that's Kenya and to a certain extent Tanzania.

ICT makes up around 15% of Kenya's exports and 10% of Uganda's, and they've both been working hard on actually building a both a strong tech industry and a strong financial industry.

Tanzania doesn't have as same a size of tech industry as Kenya or Uganda, but has been investing a massive amount on building that muscle. They also have a fairly decent industrial economy for their relative position as a LDC.

Rwanda just doesn't have a similar base or bureaucrat class as Tanzania or Kenya or Uganda. Also, Rwanda doesn't actually have a tech industry. The handful of tech companies that are even there are Indian and Chinese run MSPs there to help Indian and Chinese conglomerates that temporarily setup shop there.

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Re:Rwanda joins Kenya to initiate visa-free travel for all A... by tim333 on Monday November 06, 2023 @07:47AM (#38161859)
My guess of info tech letting Africa grow is more that they can use it and go on Wikipedia or Youtube for how to fix stuff. I'm not really expecting them to produce much tech themselves. Africa's economic strong area seems more in resources which may be sort of old tech but which has made Australia say quite wealthy.
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