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For tech to develop in emerging economies, the first obstacle is trust

The Next Web

In February I found myself seeking air-conditioned sanctuary in the Dar Es Salaam offices of Kinu , a co-working space and business accelerator, talking with Co-Founder and Community Manager John Paul Barretto. industry in Tanzania. Marshall McLuhan wrote that “we shape our tools and then they shape us.”

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

Startup Lessons Learned

The benefit of the hammer and the dance is lower, and also the cost is higher." So when a fractured world where the media is as politicized as it has ever been, who managed to get this message out? It's focused on how to learn as fast as possible with as little cost as possible. The world that existed is not coming back."