[kictanet] [Skunkworks] Milestone: Half of Kenyans are now online, how long till half of them use Bitcoin?

[Mark Mwangi]

Ali,

Are you confident that 13.5 million Kenyans are online regularly? I find
that to be a stretch of-course maybe 20-30 million have a phone or access
to one but I doubt that automatically translates to being online.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Ali Hussein <ali at hussein.me.ke> wrote:

> Mark
>
> Obviously half is abit of a stretch but 10% is also scrapping the bottom :)
>
> I'd say closer to 30% is more credible.
>
> I think Safaricom and Zuku will probably have better stats that are closer
> to believable.
>
> Which brings me to the problem we face in Africa. Lack of credible
> statistics.
>
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> On Jan 15, 2015, at 9:16 AM, Mark Mwangi via kictanet <
> kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
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> Half of Kenyans? I highly doubt those stats. I think we are falling under
> the delusion of multiple SIMs and connections for individuals. I have 3
> Sims, internet at home and at work. According to the CAK I am thus 5 people
> on the internet. Obviously not so. Also there are enough bots on twitter
> parading as Kenyan individuals.
>
> I would put the figure at 10%
>
>
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> On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 5:05 PM, John Karanja via skunkworks <
> skunkworks at lists.my.co.ke> wrote:
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>> Listers,
>>
>> Half of Kenyans are now online, how long till half of them use Bitcoin?
>> Discuss(20Mks)
>>
>> *P.S. Kudos to everyone involved in Kenya ICT hard to imagine the
>> revolution really started just 5 years ago in 2009 when fiber arrived. *
>>
>> *Flashback: http://johnkaranja.com/2009/07/12/what-next-after-the-mobile-revolution-in-kenya/
>> <http://johnkaranja.com/2009/07/12/what-next-after-the-mobile-revolution-in-kenya/>*
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>> John
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