MooPig's Entrepreneur Rubrics :: "Want to become an internet billionaire? Move to Africa"

What's Your Unit Price?
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | Dec 10, 2011 | Bryan TX

[PHOTO: Stephen Song]
Want to become an internet billionaire? Move to Africa (Wired UK):
While many of us contemplate our Kindle FIRE, and meditate on what our next phone upgrade will be, Africa lurks on a different horizon. Diamonds and gold are not the only wealth makers out of Africa. And China is not the only "developing" economy out there. Here in an article by David Rowan for wired.co.uk is one of those "Ideas" whose "time is nigh."

Nothing compares to an idea whose time is come. Besides how else do we communicate today on issues of commerce, health, location, and mobile tagging? What is your unit capable of? How much do you think it is worth?

If you live in Japan, or USA, you will easily notice the choices consumers are making as Africa swells in Internet use.

EXCERPT  |  " ... It's like being back in 1995 again, and realising there might just be a market for an online bookshop or auction website.

Don't take my word for it: David Cameron is so keen to give British entrepreneurs a foothold that he recently took a high-level delegation of corporate CEOs to Nigeria and South Africa to highlight "one of the greatest economic opportunities on the planet". (Rowan, David. Edited by Duncan Geere. 4 Nov 2011. HERE) ... "
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Leapfrog tech
If a tiny fraction of, say, Zimbabweans have access to the "big" internet, then why not make the internet accessible via SMS on their 2G phones? That's what Econet Wireless Zimbabwe is offering its five million mobile phone subscribers, turning their handsets into virtual smartphones with tech from ForgetMeNot Africa that turns emails and chats into text messages.

Now insert your own big idea here, and book your air ticket. Sure, Africa still faces huge hurdles -- in South Africa, 11 million people live below the poverty line, and almost 6 million have HIV; in Nigeria, 110 million out of a population of 158 million live on less than £1 a day. But when one telco alone, Bharti Airtel, recently announced $13 billion in African revenue last year, you know it's time to abandon our traditional assumptions.

As Cameron said in Lagos, "Which continent has six of the ten fastest growing economies in the world?... Africa is transforming in a way no-one thought possible 20 years ago…and suddenly a whole new future seems within reach."

Why shouldn't you have a profitable role in that future? ... "

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http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2011-11/04/get-rich-move-to-africa
http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/leapfrog-invests-6m-in-alllife-innovative-african-hiv-and-diabetes-insurer-78292717.html
http://news.yahoo.com/india-leapfrog-south-africa-second-spot-test-121305407.html

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MooPig's Nation Watch :: Oil Rich and Under-developed

WELCOME TO THE PLANET, South SUDAN!
Retrieved by Pat Darnell | July 9, 2011 | Bryan TX

South Sudan Becomes World's Newest Nation - FoxNews.com: EXCERPT  |  " ... "The Republic of South Sudan earned independence at 12:01 a.m. Saturday, breaking Africa's largest country in two. It marked the culmination of a January independence vote, which was guaranteed in a 2005 peace deal that ended the most recent north-south war.

" ... After the celebrations die down, residents of South Sudan face an uphill climb. While the new country is oil-rich, it is one of the poorest and least-developed places on Earth. Unresolved problems between the south and its former foe to the north could mean new conflict along the new international border, advocates and diplomats warn."

" ... Saturday's early morning celebrations were joyous for the freedom gained but tinged with the memories of family lost. At least 2 million people were killed in Sudan's last civil war, fought from 1983-2005. (AP. July 8, 2011. Read entire Article: [LINK]) ... "

[PHOTO LINK]Sudan 2006 ©Gloria Chan/MSF

EXCERPT | " ... [T]hree years after the official end of the North-South civil war, health structures other than MSF’s do not exist and peace cannot be taken for granted. (Doctors without Borders. July 21, 2008. [LINK]) ... "

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http://www.doctorswithoutborders.org/publications/alert/article.cfm?id=2835&cat=alert-article

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VATICAN: Priests Have Been Raping Nuns to Avoid Hookers with HIV

Sex in Exchange for Favours
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VATICAN: Priests Have Been Raping Nuns to Avoid Hookers with HIV: "Let us take a moment to recall Pope Benedict's view of what caused the Holocaust:
EXCERPT: " ... As we reflect on the sobering lessons of the atheist extremism of the twentieth century, let us never forget how the exclusion of God, religion and virtue from public life leads ultimately to a truncated vision of man and of society and thus to a reductive vision of the person and his destiny.
It was a ballsy statement coming from a man who was once a member of the Hitler Youth and now leads the Catholic Church, but the argument is not uncommon. 'What is morality to a Godless atheist?' is a common refrain among 'radical clerics' of every faith."

Unscrupulous clerics took advantage of young nuns: the unnerving twists of fatal couplings ... sic
EXCERPT: " ... The US article was based on five documents, which senior women from religious orders and priests have presented to the Vatican over the past decade. They describe a particularly bad situation in Africa. In a continent devastated by Aids, nuns, along with early adolescent girls, are perceived by some as safe sexual targets. The reports said that the church authorities had done little to tackle the problem. [HERE]

While most of the abuse happened in African countries, Sister O'Donohue reported incidents in 23 countries including India, Ireland, Italy, the Philippines and the United States.

O'Donohue wrote in her report how a vicar in one African diocese had talked "quite openly" about sex, saying that "celibacy in the African context means a priest does not get married, but does not mean he does not have children."

When she addressed bishops on the problem, many of them felt it was disloyal of the sisters to send reports.

"However, the sisters claim they have done so time and time again. Sometimes they were not well received. In some instances they are blamed for what happened. Even when they are listened to sympathetically nothing much seems to be done" One of the most tragic elements that emerges is the fate of the victims. While the offending priests are usually moved or sent away for studies, the women are normally chased out of their religious orders, they are then either to scared to return to their families or are rejected by them. they often finished up as outcasts, or, in a cruel twist of irony, as prostitutes, making a meagre living from an act they had vowed never to do.