Preparing South African youth for the 4th industrial revolution(iafrikan.com)

Preparing South African youth for the 4th industrial revolution

https://www.iafrikan.com/2018/03/05/anda-ngcaba-born-to-be-free-south-africa/

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Interesting article. If we take it as a given that software programming talent (main requirement for success of fourth industrial revolution - also an assumption) is mainly genetic or some other inherent aptitude that is spread globally, then the number of African software engineers is vastly underrepresented in Silicon Valley or really anywhere. That's the set of assumptions that drives these guys: https://andela.com/ They allow tech companies to outsource programming work to best of the best of Africa just like India before and Eastern Europe now. Maybe they, and companies that believe in the same thesis, can add to solutions that overcome the lack of hardware problem. MITs $100 laptop challenge doesn't seem to have done the job.