Frontier innovation
Wednesday, March 25, 2009 at 2:23AM
Thomas P.M. Barnett

POST: Kenya's Mobile Banking Revolution, Janko Roettgers, GigaOM, March 11, 2009

On the frontier of globalization, new ways of using old technologies are the norm. Why? There is no associated baggage or expectations or norms or traditions. Here, people value the connectivity of cell phones so much, they generate a form of alternative currency.

(Thanks: Steve Epstein)

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