> 1: Lack of Trust 2: Lack of infrastructure (Legal, Human resources, Power, e.t.c)
When you redefine the issue as creating a startup like Rapportive, saying that Rapportive could be launched from anywhere, it happens you answer your own question as to why not: "an identifiable problem breeds opportunity".
To invent a Rapportive, you need cultural immersion in the "problems" a culture virtually without problems faces. You can get education, and you can get resources. But as the poster from South Africa wrote, you also have objectivity and see "real problems" all around you. With your objectivity, looking up someone's email across social sites doesn't feel like an important problem, so it's less likely to get solved from the third world.
That said, Africa also gives rise to an incredibly positive cultural acclimation--fixing things with whatever's on hand. That's an extraordinary talent if applied philosophically and pragmatically, allowing one to invent and solve around the barriers you mention. That's "hacking".
When you redefine the issue as creating a startup like Rapportive, saying that Rapportive could be launched from anywhere, it happens you answer your own question as to why not: "an identifiable problem breeds opportunity".
To invent a Rapportive, you need cultural immersion in the "problems" a culture virtually without problems faces. You can get education, and you can get resources. But as the poster from South Africa wrote, you also have objectivity and see "real problems" all around you. With your objectivity, looking up someone's email across social sites doesn't feel like an important problem, so it's less likely to get solved from the third world.
That said, Africa also gives rise to an incredibly positive cultural acclimation--fixing things with whatever's on hand. That's an extraordinary talent if applied philosophically and pragmatically, allowing one to invent and solve around the barriers you mention. That's "hacking".