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Life As An African Web Developer

Posted by timothy on from the grass-is-drier dept.

There's an interesting look at the realities of high-tech in Africa running on NewsForge -- specifically, one writer's account of starting a web development company in Ghana, dealing with obstacles including power problems worse than the norm in deepest California.

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  1. Software Programmers in Ghana... by timjones · · Score: 5, Insightful
    And you thought we had competition from steaming legions of Indian and Chinese programmers?

    Most of the executive set I know (yes, in the USA) wouldn't consider buying an AUTOMOBILE from a third-world country like that, but they will do anything to have IT design (at least as complicated, when done properly) done in such places.

    Something to think about...