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Addressing global poverty in 12 tweets 
Get big tech into developing countries as a priority.
This is the 1st step to providing sustainable solutions for the masses, based on countries using tech to leapfrog stages of development.
Effectively, 'teach a man to fish'.
Get big tech into developing countries as a priority.
This is the 1st step to providing sustainable solutions for the masses, based on countries using tech to leapfrog stages of development.
Effectively, 'teach a man to fish'.
Creating millions of jobs will continue, but large corporates should have that covered.
What big tech should be doing is combining their offerings to provide every man in the street in these countries with platforms to build, buy and sell.
What big tech should be doing is combining their offerings to provide every man in the street in these countries with platforms to build, buy and sell.
Developing nations have emerging entrepreneurial cultures anyway.
Big tech should be leveraging their combined services to provide unrestricted access to e-commerce & payment platforms.
Big tech should be leveraging their combined services to provide unrestricted access to e-commerce & payment platforms.
For example, in the US anyone with an internet connection and access to @eBay/ @amazon/ @Shopify/ @gumroad/ @Etsy or tens of other platforms can give themselves a leg up and start their own little business.
Whereas in a country like South Africa for example, it's much harder because full access to affordable internet is not yet available, much less to these platforms.
In addition, platforms like PayPal don't allow for access to their full offering in most of these nations.
People can't send and receive money without jumping through hoops.
People can't send and receive money without jumping through hoops.
As a result, there are too many points of friction for the average Joe to just give themselves a quick leg up.
It's disheartening and one reason why the ratio of successful entrepreneurs is so low there.
It's disheartening and one reason why the ratio of successful entrepreneurs is so low there.
This is where big tech needs to step in and do what's right for the global population.
Just as the stock market is the best vehicle for a normal person to accumulate wealth, so tech is the best vehicle for developing countries to compete with developed ones.
Just as the stock market is the best vehicle for a normal person to accumulate wealth, so tech is the best vehicle for developing countries to compete with developed ones.
But only if they have the same access.
It truly could revolutionize how we tackle global poverty.
It truly could revolutionize how we tackle global poverty.
Imagine everyone in the world having unrestricted access to:
-Cheap internet
-A global payment platform like @PayPal
-A global market place like @amazon
-Cheap internet
-A global payment platform like @PayPal
-A global market place like @amazon
It allows for someone in a remote village in South Africa to:
-Learn how to market and sell on the internet
-Sell their local goods to anyone in the world without leaving their town
-Accept & make payments from anywhere in the world, to anyone in the world
-Learn how to market and sell on the internet
-Sell their local goods to anyone in the world without leaving their town
-Accept & make payments from anywhere in the world, to anyone in the world
