At this age where handheld devices are becoming the preferred computing device for majority of the population I'd prefer a 1 million smartphone campaing. My views are:
Think about having your secretary, bank, news agent, entertainment portal, communication equipment e.t.c right in your pocket.
- That in the the cities, most guys will prefer laptop to the mobile phone. True. but there is only so much you can do with a laptop if you are not a developer or an IT person. Majority of the population is the non-IT people.
- That in the rural areas guys would prefer a smart mobile to a laptop beacause.
- It can serve as a substitute for several lacking infrastructures and services.
- It's convenience and ease of use. Easy to learn how to access and use new functionality
- And the most important for everybody is that mobile services are not dependent on any kind of physical addressing scheme (i.e physical adress).
Goeff2009/7/29 Crystal Watley Kigoni <crystal@voicesofafrica.org>I am in complete agreement with Alex. This opportunity is to great to stay behind closed doors.Crystal--On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 1:04 AM, Samuel Waithaka <samwaithaka@gmail.com> wrote:
Yea.. this is good; bet Alex has to come up with something nice...
How much possible is it for such a good initiative to be wasted? But
having a relevant community like Skunkworks taking it up might be all
the start that's needed.
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On 7/28/09, Gakuru Alex <alexgakuru.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> Could I try and get PS Ndemo to talk to us on "how-to" get one of
> those 1 million laptops stimulus?
> http://www.businessdailyafrica.com/Company%20Industry/-/539550/628254/-/u8x1gfz/-/index.html
>
> just an interest gauge here....
>
> regards,
>
> Alex
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