A few years ago in 2007 I traveled trough Africa for a project, from East to West Africa. A very inspiring journey with a lot of encounters with beautiful people. During this trip I had the duty to maintain a live website with pictures and videos of our tour.
So one of my main duties was to find wifi spots in the most impossible places.
Five hours for a 10mb video, pfuhh, those were the times ;).
And imagine, in 2007 Youtube was only one year old, damn the world is changing fast!
Although my last trip was in 2007, I was fairly impressed by the use of technology in even the most remote places in Africa. Every person was at least owning one mobile phone.
From what I see from current documentaries, most of the Africans are not behind when it comes to smart-phones either.
In some cases Africans are even in front of the techno-developments. They adapt technology in a different way than we do. They also skip some developments that we have had.
For example most of the people never owned a pc in their home, but do make a direct transition to internet trough mobile devices.
Since 2007 some African countries like Kenia are using M-Pesa. A digital currency that is being used trough mobile phones. They directly exchange value trough sms and are doing this now for quite some time.
When connections are made to their current systems, African countries can be big users of crypto-currencies, it's a ideal fit. Check out this movie on Bitcoin in Africa:
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Good read: http://www.coindesk.com/bitcoin-and-m-pesa-why-money-in-kenya-has-gone-digital/
From what I see from the Steemit stories till now, most of the Steemians are Western people. Off course it's nice to receive a couple of hundreds bucks for a post, but imagine what it means for people that have a monthly salary of 50$ or even less. We are sitting on something than can change the lives of a lot of people.
What will these new crypto accelerated platforms do to the distribution of wealth around the world?
Will people with low-salaries and poor wealth get acces to the wealth that is being create on platforms like steemit?
Let the first African Steemits stream and Steem them up.
Inspire your friends in area's where it's not as easy to live, send them some Steem.
Some warm video from our trip in 2007:
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Wow. Great to read this. It kinda relates to an idea I've been pondering on. I'm literally the first Steemian from the most populous country in Africa. 170 million. I've been thinking on going on some mass publicity for Steemit.com and I can't wait to get started.
It's gonna be an exciting journey. I should document the process and share it publicly when I get started.
I've gained so much from Steemit these past few weeks and its time to give back...
Please share your progress. We can help! Which country are you?
How about a "fund my campaign" post? That could really get you started for an ad budget. Do people listen to radio a lot? It could be a great medium to reach people.
Great post! We have a number of good African members already. Looking forward to many more.
I look forward to it, if it brings new perspectives and good content.
I hope some of my African friends will start posting soon ;)
you rock :)
It will real nice to see things from the African perspective. Hopefully Steemit can because news and creative outlet for many people there.
Dear Beer ,the more you wright the better you are.You just opened a vast area of opp.in a third country world. Beside Africa,we could go in South America, Middle East and far East and so on get the news about their problems,lives and possible actions.We could stimulate the Rotary organization world wide and specially Chicago head office,to connect the humanitarian donators with the ones in need.That would generate millions of dollars flux through steemchain.
You guys are business driven and trying to develop that idea would be worth.
Myself I shall propose to my Rotary club in Belgrade.
i am from south africa
I think Steem dollar might be very helpful in poor countries. It's free to use (no transaction cost) and it's pegged to US dollar (very handy if the currency of the homecountry happens to be very inflationary). And of course it's very fast with three second blocktimes. Best cryptocurrency so far for developing countries.
yes it is really true so if our president decides to to something really stupid not all is lost
People get to eat.
Payouts need to be weighted to the average wage of the payees country of residence, with USA weight == 1. That is the radical solution.