NY TIMES: Inside Nairobi, the Next Palo Alto?

Inside Nairobi, the Next Palo Alto?

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/bu...in&oref=slogin

Programmers are catering to the 10 million cellphones in Kenya.

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By G. PASCAL ZACHARY
Published: July 20, 2008

IN the republic of innovation, life is unfair. A relatively small
number of places — all in wealthy countries or in China and India —
create nearly every important technological advance.

Your next cell phone program may be a creation of one of Obama's
distant brothers!

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Anybody who thinks Nairobi is going to be like Palo Alto clearly has
never visited both.
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superstition.
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On Mon, 21 Jul 2008, Bob Fry posted:
> Anybody who thinks Nairobi is going to be like Palo Alto clearly has
> never visited both.

I think that he meant East Palo Alto.

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