Can you imagine, I saw a post on radar.techcabal.com claiming that
Nigerian/African programmers haven't reached a stage where they can
create technologies that can change the world, because they need to
fight poverty first to create an enabling environment for our children
to create the technology.
" I think that the current generation of developers will not save Africa. The ecosystem is too nascent to support much beyond transactional initiatives that allow them live from day to day. Remember Maslow's hierarchy? Hard to innovate when there's food and shelter and school fees to be paid."
“We have those who call themselves developers but can’t build anything from [the] ground-up [on their own]. They are just masters at combining a couple of hand-picked modules to get a product,”
http://radar.techcabal.com/t/where-are-africa-s-developers/166/6
That said, and as true as it is, it only means that our hope rests on our children and that we can only focus on fighting poverty. Wow!
Well, we can be creative and we can build from scratch, and I think most Africans have built from scratch. Now, I need anyone who has built something from scratch to prove those guys wrong and post whatever they built and are proud of, even if the marketing has been poor and discouraging. I will start by posting mine.
RoadPad is a simple webapp that you can log on to, type a take-off city (e.g Abuja) and then a destination city (e.g Lagos) and it will show you every transport operator (those already added to the system) so that you can do any of the following:
1) Just get information from the page about their operation
2) Query them about anything
3) Write or read a review
4) Book directly from their.
You can see a sample here http://roadpad.com/route/6 or just search your own here http://roadpad.com/
So, Africa and Nigeria can build from scratch...
I also have other projects but posting more than one could constitute spamming, so let's just stick to one.
Looking forward to your
" I think that the current generation of developers will not save Africa. The ecosystem is too nascent to support much beyond transactional initiatives that allow them live from day to day. Remember Maslow's hierarchy? Hard to innovate when there's food and shelter and school fees to be paid."
“We have those who call themselves developers but can’t build anything from [the] ground-up [on their own]. They are just masters at combining a couple of hand-picked modules to get a product,”
http://radar.techcabal.com/t/where-are-africa-s-developers/166/6
That said, and as true as it is, it only means that our hope rests on our children and that we can only focus on fighting poverty. Wow!
Well, we can be creative and we can build from scratch, and I think most Africans have built from scratch. Now, I need anyone who has built something from scratch to prove those guys wrong and post whatever they built and are proud of, even if the marketing has been poor and discouraging. I will start by posting mine.
RoadPad is a simple webapp that you can log on to, type a take-off city (e.g Abuja) and then a destination city (e.g Lagos) and it will show you every transport operator (those already added to the system) so that you can do any of the following:
1) Just get information from the page about their operation
2) Query them about anything
3) Write or read a review
4) Book directly from their.
You can see a sample here http://roadpad.com/route/6 or just search your own here http://roadpad.com/
So, Africa and Nigeria can build from scratch...
I also have other projects but posting more than one could constitute spamming, so let's just stick to one.
Looking forward to your
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