But first let’s pause briefly to acquire a frame of reference for thinking about how prosperity is created, as expressed in this new book.
The underlying idea: You don’t turn poverty into prosperity by going in and meeting a need. Rather, the prosperity growth dynamic is created internally by local entrepreneurs who understand the needs of the people around them and who are motivated to build businesses to meet these needs. Our job as technologists is to shape our technologies into things these entrepreneurs can leverage.
Looking at the world as a whole, very few of these entrepreneurs have programming skills. Also in this world, there are over two billion smartphones, many in emerging economies. This is one motive behind enabling non-programmer entrepreneurs to build business applications. See the links below.
Smartphone usage:
https://www.statista.com/statistics/330695/number-of-smartphone-users-worldwide/
Rural market information infrastructure:
