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If Nairobi Can Do It
Posted by Carol Coletta on August 15, 2008 |
Colleague Greg Zachary has found in Nairobi 600 young programmers, bloggers and Web enthusiasts who have turned themselves into Skunkworks, a group sharing ideas and encouraging new businesses to develop in response to the distinctive (narrow bandwidth) digital experience in that city.
“To be truly creative in a technological backwater is to defeat geography," Greg notes. But if Nairobi can do it, then the question is, where is your city’s equivalent? And just as important, is your city capitalizing on its distinctiveness – even its seeming disadvantage, as in Nairobi – for competitive advantage?