And I must say, it's pretty obvious that where ever you look, you will find that most of the advertising is for telecom and mobile phones. The local potential for distributing communications goods is great. But even more obvious is that the only places where you will find electricity and running water (appart from a few average size towns) are where the tourists hang out on safaris. While travelling there with my wife, the first thing that came to our mind was how wonderful it would be to have a proper computer map of the areas we were visiting. We had a GPS unit but no map! Considering that tourism is much more profitable than coffee, you can imagine that Google, with it's satellite mapping technology, has a nice card to play here.
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And I must say, it's pretty obvious that where ever you look, you will find that most of the advertising is for telecom and mobile phones. The local potential for distributing communications goods is great. But even more obvious is that the only places where you will find electricity and running water (appart from a few average size towns) are where the tourists hang out on safaris.
While travelling there with my wife, the first thing that came to our mind was how wonderful it would be to have a proper computer map of the areas we were visiting. We had a GPS unit but no map! Considering that tourism is much more profitable than coffee, you can imagine that Google, with it's satellite mapping technology, has a nice card to play here.