WSJ Reports
"Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for more than half of the 255 live mobile money services across the globe in 2014, with monthly mobile money transactions in the region topping $10 billion in late 2014, according to GSMA."
The Geeks of Color are going to inherit the continent, and people are fools to boycott America's access to the ground floor. More Africans are going to college in China today than are going to college in the USA.
#freejoebenson
#thanksobama
"Sub-Saharan Africa accounted for more than half of the 255 live mobile money services across the globe in 2014, with monthly mobile money transactions in the region topping $10 billion in late 2014, according to GSMA."
Full article here (may be paywalled). But check out the numbers. This network is built on the refurbished cell phones and phone towers set up by Geeks of Color a decade ago. This is incredible, and helps explain why it makes me furious that Basel Action Network, Greenpeace and PureEarth are making money by hustling and over-producing films depicting Africans as "primitive".Startup Fuels Africa’s Mobile-Payment Boom
MFS Africa’s mobile-payment platform is used by 55 million people in 17 African countries
The Geeks of Color are going to inherit the continent, and people are fools to boycott America's access to the ground floor. More Africans are going to college in China today than are going to college in the USA.
#freejoebenson
#thanksobama
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