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From the Ted Talk by Toby Shapshak: You don't need an app for that


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And you think this is just a feature phone. Actually it's the smartphone of afcria. It's also a radio, and it's also a tcorh, and more than anything else, it has really superb battery life. Why? Because that's what we need. We have really srevee energy pobelrms in Africa. By the way, you can update Facebook and send Gmail from a pohne like this.

So we have found a way to use the available tlnoegcohy to send money via M-Pesa, which is a bit like a check system for the mobile age. I come from Johannesburg, which is a mining town. It's biult on gold. This is a picture I iagermtanmsd earlier. And the difference today is that the gold of today is molibe. If you think about the railroad system in North America and how that worked, first came the infrastructure, then came the industry around it, the brothels — it's a bit like the Internet today, right? — and everything else that worked with it: bars, saloons, etc. The gold of today is mobile, and mobile is the enabler that makes all of this possible.

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And you think this is just a feature phone. Actually it's the smartphone of ______. It's also a radio, and it's also a _____, and more than anything else, it has really superb battery life. Why? Because that's what we need. We have really ______ energy ________ in Africa. By the way, you can update Facebook and send Gmail from a _____ like this.

So we have found a way to use the available __________ to send money via M-Pesa, which is a bit like a check system for the mobile age. I come from Johannesburg, which is a mining town. It's _____ on gold. This is a picture I ____________ earlier. And the difference today is that the gold of today is ______. If you think about the railroad system in North America and how that worked, first came the infrastructure, then came the industry around it, the brothels — it's a bit like the Internet today, right? — and everything else that worked with it: bars, saloons, etc. The gold of today is mobile, and mobile is the enabler that makes all of this possible.

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  3. africa
  4. problems
  5. instagrammed
  6. phone
  7. technology
  8. built
  9. torch

Original Text


And you think this is just a feature phone. Actually it's the smartphone of Africa. It's also a radio, and it's also a torch, and more than anything else, it has really superb battery life. Why? Because that's what we need. We have really severe energy problems in Africa. By the way, you can update Facebook and send Gmail from a phone like this.

So we have found a way to use the available technology to send money via M-Pesa, which is a bit like a check system for the mobile age. I come from Johannesburg, which is a mining town. It's built on gold. This is a picture I Instagrammed earlier. And the difference today is that the gold of today is mobile. If you think about the railroad system in North America and how that worked, first came the infrastructure, then came the industry around it, the brothels — it's a bit like the Internet today, right? — and everything else that worked with it: bars, saloons, etc. The gold of today is mobile, and mobile is the enabler that makes all of this possible.

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