[kictanet] Fwd: What Was Mark Zuckerberg Up To On His Visits To Kenya And Nigeria?
Mildred Achoch
mildandred at gmail.com
Mon Sep 5 14:52:59 EAT 2016
Mine is just an observation: I don't know if there is a connection or it
was just a sad coincidence, that Mark was in Kenya on the same day as the
start of the Indo-Africa ICT Expo. :-)
Check out the Rock 'n' roll film festival, Kenya TV Channel!
http://kenyarockfilmfestivaljournal.blogspot.com
On Mon, Sep 5, 2016 at 9:52 AM, Barrack Otieno via kictanet <
kictanet at lists.kictanet.or.ke> wrote:
> Listers,
>
> Interesting opinions in the media this weekend.
>
> Regards
>
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> Subject: What Was Mark Zuckerberg Up To On His Visits To Kenya And Nigeria?
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> Mark Zuckerberg was in Kenya and Nigeria this past week
> (http://iafrikan.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=
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> . Understandably there was a lot of buzz about the places he visited,
> the things he did, and the people he met.
>
> While some took this visit to be a validation of the continent's tech
> industry, others saw it as a quest for new markets and business by the
> social network, following a government ban on Free Basics in Egypt
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> .
>
> Facebook does have a plan to grow its presence on the continent,
> especially given the sheer number of people who remain offline even
> though 95% of the world lives within range of a 2G signal. Initiatives
> such as Aquila (http://iafrikan.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=
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> as BRCK (http://iafrikan.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=
> b5c77b5d9fe8557cd2e26f469&id=f21ac53054&e=84a60ba6eb)
> , which Zuckerberg himself visited while in Nairobi, which are likely
> to lose out to the social network's vastly deeper coffers.
>
> However, there are signs that the Facebook founder is keen on growing
> the next generation of techies, considering the Chan-Zuckerberg
> Initiative's investment in Andela
> (http://iafrikan.us5.list-manage2.com/track/click?u=
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> , and Zuckerberg's visit to Abuja
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> to attend the Aso Villa Demo Day with President Buhari.
>
> However, the narratives around the initiatives that Zuckerberg visited
> are also worrying. BRCK was touted as 'an American-owned, Kenya-based
> start-up' (http://iafrikan.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=
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> , and Andela, it was often pointed out, was founded by Nigerians but
> is incorporated in the US. The fact that these initiatives have to be
> qualified through references to the US is worrying enough, but the
> questions that they bring up do need answering. Why bring up the
> connection if not to serve as an indictment on the current state of
> the startup and tech ecosystems in these countries?
>
> Mark's visits did spark off a couple of niche stories. Like how
> Nigerians and Ghanaians will argue over who has the best jollof
> (http://iafrikan.us5.list-manage.com/track/click?u=
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> , and how Kenyans have had monster traffic jams after recent visits by
> world leaders, but Mark's visit left Nairobi largely uncongested
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