"Innovate on existing platforms (We’ve got bicycles and mobile phones in Africa, plus lots of metal to weld. Innovate using that stuff, rather than bringing in completely new tech.)"
I see this working in my country
Uganda. With telephone coverage almost everywhere, we can impact people's lives with innovations that work on text voice phones. This just sparked off a number of ideas:
- Google SMS: Having the entire google search functionality accessed via SMS
- Having the country's constitution entirely accessed via SMS
- SMS-only blog: Blogging by SMS only
- Births/death registration by SMS
- The election body can use SMS to enable voters verify their registration
- Traffic Jam updates
- Weather services by SMS
- Checkin at Airport by SMS
- Correcting data about the environment by SMS
- ....
lots of ideas here coming up, this makes think, it seems a lot more we can do with the existing infrastructure .
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