Coding - 21st century Blue-Collar Job
Coding job is the blue-collar job of the 21st century. Software is rising as the gunpowder to win empires of nations. It would “eat” the world provided hardware could cook the world. So far Africa remains hard to be cooked because the bolts and nuts are yet to be connected and fastened across industrial sectors and markets. See them as opportunities of our generation!
Cheaper computing systems, IoT (internet of things), broadband connectivity and drop in components costs will expand the nexus of these sensors into more areas. African hardware startups have real opportunities because without hardware, we cannot bring the power of information systems in facilitating catalytic transformations. For all the health tracking apps, across African technology hubs, they still need hardware sensors to collect the data. If the costs of those sensors do not drop (most are made abroad), the market penetration may remain limited. That is why opportunities exist to build some of these sensors right in Africa.